The Union victory after the Civil War in 1865 may had given roughly 4 million slaves their freedom, however the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period introduced a new set of significant challenges. In order to reconstruct the country following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, the federal government and Republican-controlled state governments in the southern regions made efforts to rebuild the Southern economy and advance conditions of freedom. Following the Civil War, majority of white Southerners opposed Reconstruction and the Republican Party's support of black civil and political rights. However, Reconstruction ultimately failed due to violence against African Americans, the Compromise of 1877 and the …show more content…
During the period of Reconstruction, lasting from 1865 to 1877, the United States Congress of the United States enacted several amendments the promoted civil and political rights for African Americans in the south. The most prominent amendments passed including the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The Fourteenth Amendment addressed to whomever is born or naturalized in the United States are considered to be citizens. Lastly, the Fifteenth Amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. However, originating from the late 1860’s, the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, was a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep african americans from obtaining their civil rights. In 1871, the United States Congress authorized an act that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of Klan leaders and members. Though the Ku Klux Klan retreated their acts of violence slowly, the federal government's military presence was withdrawn from various Southern states. The Compromise of 1877 ordered remaining troops to extract themselves from remaining Southern states. With no troops to enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, Reconstruction came to an
The original purpose of Reconstruction was to restore the buildings and the economy of the south the best they could, but without the immoral element of slavery. But, reconstruction under the Johnson Presidency was a failure for a few reasons: 1) Convict Leasing, 2) Sharecropping, 3) the Ku Klux Klan, 4) Segregation in schools, even in the North, 5) Carpetbaggers/Scalawags, 6) misleading statistics, and 7) racism.
Reconstruction was a time period of major change in the United States of America for both African Americans and White citizens. After the Civil War, the reconstruction process started out as a failure, but over the years turned into a huge success because of how African Americans were able to live normal lives. Overall, Reconstruction was a success because freedom and growth of equality for African Americans was increased greatly.
The Reconstruction had many good and bad qualities and many different people had separate views on whether it was a success or a failure. During the Reconstruction process, a lot of violence and issues erupted. This caused many problems for the US government. However,I believe that in the long run, Reconstruction has been more of a success than a failure, and has overall made the United States a better country. To begin on a positive note, the successes America gained were many.
The most notable of these were the 13th amendment, which officially banned slavery, and the 15th amendment, which gave black men the right to vote. These amendments were passed in 1865 and 1870, respectively. However, the 13th and 15th amendments
With the death of the leader of the country, Lincoln, and the incompetence of his successor, Johnson, the Reconstruction was made more difficult. This coupled with the overall difficulty of enforcing the Reconstruction meant that it was destined to fail. However, these are not the only factors that went into its failure. There are countless reasons for its failure, three of the most prevalent being the continuing belief of the inferiority of African Americans, the formation of white leagues set out to keep slavery and discrimination alive, and the weakening of the government on Reconstruction policies. Reconstruction was built on hope and good ideas.
The period after the Civil War was followed by a period called Reconstruction. Reconstruction was the process of readmitting the 11 Confederate states that had seceded by military occupation. The Reconstruction period was a failure because of the political, social, and economical aspects after 1863.
There were many different opinions on how Reconstruction should have been handled. Johnson’s plan was extremely lenient towards the Southerners, while the Radical Republicans’ plan punished the South greatly. Lincoln’s plan was the middle ground of the spectrum. In my opinion, I believe that Lincoln’s plan would have been the most effective plan in bringing the Union back together in a stable and fair way.
After the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and economic factors arising from the readmission to the Union of the Confederate States that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. President Abraham Lincoln planned to readmit states with a criterion in which 10% of the voters had pledged loyalty to the Union. This lenient approach was opposed by the Radical Republicans, who favored the measures passed in the Wade-Davis Bill. Andrew Johnson became the President after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. He wanted to keep it simple and easy to restore the local rule. So, he took over and continued with the moderate policies of Lincoln, but due to the enactment in the South of the black codes and the demand for stricter legislation in the North resulted in victories of Radical Republicans
After the civil war ended, the United States of America was in a terrible shape. The country was split in two, places were destroyed in battles, and slaves that were supposed to be free were not. This scenario was that beginning of what is called the reconstruction era. People in the states had to literally reconstruct things such as buildings, they had to give the slaves freedom, and bring back each and every confederate state into the union. These new changes affected everybody from northerners, to southerners to the freed slaves themselves. Many successes and failures occurred, but the U.S. still had a job to do, to bring the United States back to its former glory.
Due to the gradual elimination of African-American rights and the withdrawal of Federal troops from the South to enforce such rights, the end of Reconstruction surfaced in 1877. In the eyes of blacks, Reconstruction was a point in history where they could see their civil rights expanding before their very own eyes. On the contrary, whites were deeply disturbed at the way their once “white supremacy” government was dwindling in the rear-view mirror behind them. This fourteen year period known as Reconstruction houses the memories of temporary freedom, scandal, backdoor deals, and the unresolved social, political, and economical issues of our country.
Reconstruction was the time between 1863 and 1877 when the U.S. focused on abolishing slavery, destroying the Confederacy, and reconstructing the nation and the Constitution and is also the general history of the post-Civil War era in the U.S. between 1865 and 1877. Under Abraham Lincoln, presidential reconstruction began in each state as soon as federal troops controlled most of the state. The usual ending date is 1877, when the Compromise of 1877 saw the collapse of the last Republican state governments in the South
The process of rebuilding America after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877, known as the Reconstruction, fell very short of its expectations because of the negative effect it had on relationships within the country. President Lincoln came up with plans for reconstruction, however, Congress believed it was too lenient. After Lincoln’s death and events following regarding Johnson, Congress dominated the government and came up with their own plan that sets the nation up for further disagreement. The plan for Reconstruction as Congress made it, was a failure because of how it divided the government, turned the races against each other, and set up freed slaves for poverty.
Reconstruction is the period of rebuilding the south that succeeded the Civil War (1861-1865). This period of time is set by the question now what? The Union won the war and most of the south was destroyed. Devastation, buildings turned into crumbles and lost crops. The South was drowning in poverty. To worsen the situation there were thousands of ex-slaves that were set free by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13 Amendment. "All these ex-slaves", Dr. Susan Walens commented, "and no place to put them," The ex-slaves weren't just homeless but they had no rights, unlike white man. The government and congress had to solve the issues present in the south and the whole nation
Reconstruction was the time period following the Civil War, which lasted from 1865 to 1877, in which the United States began to rebuild. The term can also refer to the process the federal government used to readmit the defeated Confederate states to the Union. While all aspects of Reconstruction were not successful, the main goal of the time period was carried out, making Reconstruction over all successful. During this time, the Confederate states were readmitted to the Union, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were ratified, and African Americans were freed from slavery and able to start new lives.
The KKK started off harmless, then quickly became involved in the violent struggle of the Reconstruction Era. They believed that blacks were inferior members of society, and were undeserving of citizenship or legal protection. Violence within the KKK was very destructive, and Congress soon responded by passing a series of federal acts to enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The Civil Rights Act of 1871, more formally known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, gave federal officials the power to arrest anyone who sought to deprive citizens of their constitutionally guaranteed rights.