Dbq Reconstruction

The north grew weary of the ‘Negro Question’ and ‘sick of carpet-bag’ the started to go against all of these policies (Doc C). In the 1870s they were high-level scandals and Ulysses S Grant presidency cause by corrupt officials appointed by him. Grant was a trusted president but how ever his officials were not. They caused problems such as the tammany ring,whiskey ring, and the Belknap affair were all scandals. All of the corrupt government in the north caused people to lose their faith and focus in reconstruction. (Doc C) The fall of 1873 the Boston Evening Transcript wrote a letter arguing that the blacks were unfitted people for the proper exercise of political duties (Doc D). The North were slowly turning into the south by showing hatred of blacks. They thought that since they were uneducated it would take the a very long time to learn how to read or write. They painted them as aggressive demanding people. (Doc D Cartoon). They started to go against reconstruction and focus more on political things that the thought of reconstruction faded

The Reconstruction of the United States was an experiment in interracial democracy. The Civil War victory by the North brought to a close the establishment of slavery but, in turn, opened Pandora's box. The questions and answers pertaining to economical, political, and social equality for freedmen had yet to be addressed on a practical level. The Southern states, still bitter from defeat and economic stresses, strongly rejected the societal transformations thrust upon them. The Northern states' focal point remained on the necessary political powers by which to enact constitutional amendments, therefore empowering the federal government with the capabilities to enforce the principles of equal rights. On paper, slavery was abolished, but in reality, African-Americans were once again enslaved on a ship without the security or knowledge of what the next port held for them. The Civil War had not truly ended. It was still active under the guise of Reconstruction, but now coats and flags of many colors existed, and battles were merely fought on alternate battlefields. A war of ideas lacking in substantial practicality resulted in repetitious battles being won and loss. The motivating forces that set Reconstruction into motion were for the most part the North's quest for unification among states', and the emancipation of slaves. However, the primary objective of Reconstruction was to grant political, economical, and social opportunities for the freedmen. The

With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14th, 1865 and the end of the American Civil War, America was left broken and in shambles. The United States was stuck with the task of integrating the former slave population and the former rebellious population back into the nation. This era, called Reconstruction, lasted from 1865 to 1877 and was a failure considering all the freedoms and rights it failed to bring to African Americans. Although, objectively, it seemed as if former slaves were beginning to receive equality due to the creation of things such as the three new amendments, the freedmen's bureau, and 40 acres and a Mule this is not the case. These justices repaid did in fact help former slaves but they didn’t last long until either

After the Union claimed victory in the Civil War, America underwent the Reconstruction Era that lasted between 1865 to 1877. This was a time period where the government set conditions that would permit the defiant Southern states once again into the Union and abide by American Government. The “10 percent” plan was part of Abraham Lincolns Reconstruction plan established in 1864, used to rejoin the Southern States back to the Union which Johnson later vetoed because he believed it meant injustice to the Southern States. In 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau was presented in Congress and was made to care for liberated slaves and additionally evacuees and surrendered the land. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act which gave blacks full citizenship and

The challenge of reconstruction could have been met, if only President Abraham Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated in 1865 and replaced with President Andrew Johnson. President Johnson was a Southerner that believed the south didn’t have the right to secede in the first place. He also believed that African Americans had no place in reconstruction. During the period of presidential reconstruction (1865-1867), the president had state conventions held by provisional governors to create new all-white governments (which were similar to the old confederate governments they had replaced). Johnson

The Civil War is known most commonly as the war that freed the slaves, but when the war ended and all was said and done, were the slaves really all that free? The war sent the United States into ‘Reconstruction’, a period of around eleven years where the war’s aftershock, the new laws on slavery, and the backlash that came with these laws was dealt with. After the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were passed and slavery was officially illegalized, things took a pretty big change of course. The previous slave-owners were at a loss for what to do, and in a way so were the newly freed African Americans. Both parties had grown to rely on each other in order to support themselves and survive, and that relationship would continue to

Democratic voters were enfranchised while Republican influence was fading and by 1876, military rule was only left in 3 states. During the election of 1876, the democratic candidate Samuel Tilden won 184 electoral votes over the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, however, 20 electoral votes were contested as the states under military rule sent back two sets of returns. The electoral crisis of 1877 was resolved by a special committee of 8 republicans and 7 democrats. Because of their majority, the republicans were able to “win” the negotiations. Hayes won the presidency in return for an end to military rule in the South. The already influential democrats would win complete control if the troops removed, effectively ending Radical Reconstruction.

The corruption in Grant’s administration was also a reason why people turned their backs on the Reconstruction (Doc. C 1). The administration was so unfocused on the Reconstruction, that the populace began to turn their backs on the Reconstruction. “Even the staunchly pro-Grant and pro-Freedman Boston Evening Transcript ran a letter… arguing that “the blacks as a people, are unfitted for the proper exercise of political duties” (Doc. D

Public schools had been established and civil rights laws in place protecting against discrimination. This was Lincoln’s goal and should to be considered a success of Reconstruction. However, by the late 1870’s, this success is overshadowed with the passing of Black Codes, the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, and widespread government corruption in the south. Reconstruction had also succeed in fueling a backlash of racism that was spreading to northern abolitionist. Newspapers and periodicals once championing the merits of former slaves now depict them as less than human. Codes seeking to enslave black men again and blatant acts of terrorism soon went without

After the war Republicans had considerable power and the Democratic party was in shambles, which led to them having their own objectives and visions of Reconstruction. (Nash, et al., 2007., p. 468) Congressional Republicans feared losing their power and attempted to set the tone of Reconstruction by passing a civil rights bill in 1866, refused to seat members from the former Confederacy, and investigated conditions in the South, which led to the passage of the Reconstruction acts that divided the South into five districts. (Nash, et al., 2007., pp. 472-473, 476) Republicans also moved against President Johnson as they reduced the expanded power of the executive branch and eventually impeached him. (Nash, et al., 2007., p. 476) Democrats also had a vested interest in Reconstruction as after the war the party was in shambles and had to grapple for the power to push their interests over the Congressional Republicans. This power contest led to unsavory tactics in the South such as the Mississippi Plan, which was devised as an intimidation tactic to force people to vote Democratic. (Nash,

Many historians assert that Reconstruction started during the Civil War with federal government debates that began in early 1863; however, history typically acknowledges the Reconstruction Era as the time between the conclusions of the Civil War’s armed conflict in 1865 through the signing of the Compromise of 1877. Historians agree in practicality that this tumultuous period of Reconstruction did not just abruptly end in 1877 as African Americans continued to face racial bias and discrimination through the Jim Crow era in the 1890s and on through the first decades of the twentieth Century. The freedom and exuberance that 4.2 million ex-slaves experienced at the end of the Civil War did not automatically convert to equality, nor did their

In 1865, the United States government implemented what was known as Reconstruction. Its’ purpose was to remove slavery from the south, and give African-American’s the freedom in which they deserved. However, the freedom that they deserved was not the freedom that they received. With documents like The Black Codes restricting them from numerous privileges that white people had and the terroristic organization known as the Klu Klux Klan attacking and killing them, African-American’s were still being oppressed by their government as well as their fellow man. Slavery may have been abolished, but African-American’s were not yet given the freedom and rights that their white counterparts took for granted.

After the Civil War, America experienced a period called Reconstruction. In this period promptly taking after the Civil War, the central government pointed towards bringing together the United States again. The defiant Southerners who had battled in the Confederate military were currently compelled to join the Northerners trying to reproduce the United States. Ex-subjugated African Americans were still struggling to be treated fairly in a country which had been separated somewhat because of the point of subjection. Numerous adjustments in the legislature had occurred subsequent to the Civil War. In the months taking after the Election of 1876, however before the initiation in March 1877, Republican and Democratic pioneers subtly worked out

In 1865, with the Union victory, slavery was effectively abolished, as well as the question of whether a state has the right to secede from the country. But the failure of Reconstruction, which continued until 1877, left the Southern whites in a position of firm control over its black population, denying them their Civil Rights and keeping them in a state of economic, social and political servitude. As a consequence, the United States remained bitterly divided.

After the Civil War ended in 1865, questions of power and reconstruction gripped the union. Power shifted from Lincoln and Johnson’s lenient plans – pardoning many and allowing states to reenter with 10% – to congress’s more stringent military reconstruction, which divided the south into five districts. Ultimately, however, this movement ended with the compromise of 1877, which gave the Republican Hayes the presidency and ended reconstruction. This Reconstruction effort did in fact give the South an inspiration for industry and freed men a brief glimpse of equality and progress as they received emancipation, citizenship, voting rights, and public education in the form of constitutional amendments and movements such as the Freedman’s Borough. However, the failures of reconstruction outweighed these gains since, despite the concrete amendments, Southerners regained their gross superiority over African-Americans with intimidation, political loopholes, and Supreme Court rulings. Therefore, Reconstruction was in fact a failure.