Civil War And Reconstruction Analysis

The Civil War was the bloodiest battle the US has ever never had that reconstruction it took a very long time. 1876 was the year of the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence . 1877 the last federal troops left the South. I believe the north killed Reconstruction because they did not do anything to stop racism, they had the Panic of 1873 and public opinion shifted about reconstruction the Civil War.

Before we decided on the topic of Reconstruction, we initially wanted to do the Civil War, but decided it was too broad and general. Which led us to something a lot simpler; The Battle of Gettysburg, but because it was a battle there wasn’t an actual compromise, only a conflict. That’s when we finally decided on the topic of Reconstruction after the Civil War.

On the other hand, in Reconstruction: North and South there are many types of oppositions. Due to the absence of Southern members, Congress decided to pass the Republican economic agenda. In order to remove Civil Rights Act doubts, joint committee proposed the 14th Amendment which had went far ahead of the Civil Right Act. Many radicals had wished for the Congress to control the Reconstitution program, but Lincoln wanted the Presidential control.

When reading about the reconstruction era after the civil war I try to take a step back and look at their perspective and the struggles they went through. The best way to try to understand life at that time would be from the words of Houston Hartsfield Holloway, born enslaved who lived and wrote about his life at the reconstruction era "For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them."

War! Nobody likes it especially when it's in their own country. The union victory in the Civil war may have given 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of re-uniting the government after the South departed from the U.S. introduced a new set of challenges. Reconstruction was America's first experiment in interracial democracy for men. It tested the central philosophies and traditions of America's society and institutions (Shmoop Editorial Team). It was also a period in U.S. history where the government tried to re-unite the southern states with the northern states.

After the civil war and the period of reconstruction during the 20th century, many economic, social and political conditions changed for African Americans. This new freedom and opportunities given to them were not dramatically a big change. Even though the civil war had ended African Americans still faced discrimination and didn’t get as promised. One social change that came out of the civil war and reconstruction was segregation between the two races it was the process of separating the black people from the white. As shown in document 6, we see the public drinking fountain in North Carolina are kept separate from the white.

I bet you know about the Civil War but, what about the Reconstruction time period? The Reconstruction time period was another important part of the Civil War. The reconstruction was the time period after the Civil War. The Civil War was the war against the north and the south over slavery and many other different ways of life. The Civil War pretty much smoothed out the significant differences between the north and south but, that did not mean that the north and south got along well.

After the Civil War, the United States had a lot of rebuilding to do. The war had halted the development of the country in its tracks, and many efforts had to be made to fix the economy, the physical state of the land and satisfy the needs and wants of the people. Integration of newly emancipated slaves, known as freedmen, and their safety was a question mark in the minds of many Americans, and ideas of how to fairly pull the South back into the Union were extremely varied amongst lawmakers. Compromise played a big role in keeping every side happy to prevent slipping back into war. It was prioritized that the North and South were blended back into one, united country, and many actions were taken in expediting this process.

The Civil War is the most devastating war that this nation has ever faced yet. With the weapons created by the Industrial Revolution, hundreds and thousands of men were slaughtered. After many endless fights between the Union and the Confederates, the North finally was able to pull it off and become victorious. The victory of the North determined the outcome of the Union and of slavery, but is causing many problems. There is the issue of how the nation would come back together and how the former slaves would act now that they are free. And now that the Civil War ended in 1865, what is known as Reconstruction has now begun.

After the Civil War, America was in a time of turmoil. The Civil War was a dramatic experience for the entire country that was thought to bring about significant changes, but it did not. Within one year after the war, slavery had been recreated under a new name through the creation of black codes. Although changes were being made, these changes were not valid because the Southern states were resisting change in their values and beliefs. There was lots of controversy during this period of reconstruction between the Republicans of the North and the Democrats of the South surrounding the political rights and opportunities of the newly freed slaves. The recent war had hardened both sides opinions, polarizing

why was did the destruction of the reconstruction happen and who's fault was it north or the south. The process of rebuilding the south after the civil war. The reconstruction happened after the civil war and after the slaves were freed they were trying to rebuild the south and almost everyone wanted that except the KKK and the south gave up on them because of their resistance. Who from the nation destroyed the process of reconstruction. The south resistance destroyed reconstruction of the United States by the resistance from the KKK and the north's neglect of the south's problems.

     The period after the Civil War was a very difficult time in the United States’ history. This time was known as the Reconstruction period and it was a very controversial time. There were many issues that had to be addressed such as what to do with the free blacks in the south and how states would be readmitted to the Union. This era saw the rise of the Radical Republicans. The government was going through changes, southerners were going through changes, and blacks were going through changes. Whites in the south were left without people to work their plantations. Slavery was indeed a very important topic during this time. Many of the reconstruction plans that were proposed required states to prohibit slavery in

The Reconstruction Era can be distinguished from other eras by looking at the relationships between the northern and the southern regions, along with the rights of African Americans. Having won the Civil War, the northern part of the country (anti-slavery) pushed for more rights and freedoms for those freed from slavery.

Although the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Reconstruction brought great hope to America’s four million former slaves, the efforts of Congressional Reconstruction ultimately failed to establish equal rights for the freedmen because the racist mindset still dominated American society at the time and Democratic influence steadily overcame Republican control in Congress. Despite the Union’s victory, the end of the Civil War brought many significant national problems, including an economically and culturally devastated South and the protection of the freedmen. After a period of Reconstruction under Lincoln and then under Andrew Johnson, it was Congress’s turn to determine the path of Reconstruction. While the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation were large steps in the freedmen’s road to equality, it was never going to be that easy to attain true equality for all. The Southerners’ mindset was still fixated on the idea that freedmen were naturally inferior.

1. The war in 1862 was only more than a year old and the people in both the Union and Confederate sides didn’t anticipate it would last that long, but it is going to go on. Close to the end of the summer in this same year, the Union has made huge progress in claiming confederate lands, winning some major battles. They have put the confederacy in the defensive. They have taken over New Orleans, with even black troops major on the ground of New Orleans. They have taken Missouri and are working hard to take over the Mississippi Valley and maybe even Richmond itself. Bruce Catton puts it this way in The Civil War, “Except for guerrilla activity, Kentucky and Missouri has been swept clear of armed confederates, Western Tennessee had been reclaimed, there was a Yankee army in Cumberland Gap, another one was approaching chattanooga, and a third was sprawled out from Memphis to Corinth, preparing to splice down through Mississippi and touch hands with the Union occupation forces in Baton Rouge and New Orleans” (85) So not only that they Union had taken over regions, they are advancing as well, but they did not win the way this year for some reason. Firstly, because they did not have generals and army heads capable of taking them to victory. General Halleck, chief of the Union Armies and Pope in charge of one of the Union armies in Virginia, were major examples of this.