North Or South Who Killed Reconstruction Dbq

It seemed as though black people were finally starting to be recognized as actual people. According to the article “Reconstruction” on the website ushistory.org it says, “Under federal bayonets,blacks, including those who had recently been freed, received the right to vote, hold political offices, and become judges and police chiefs.” African Americans were finally able to hold some type of power in political offices and could have jobs of importance, however, many Southerners were angered by black people having this new sense of freedom. From the same article it says, “Many Southern whites could not accept the idea that former slaves could not only vote but hold office. It was this era that the Ku Klux Klan was born.” Douglass’s dream of equality was starting to slip away with white supremacists discriminating against black people. To this day, there is still racism and discrimination among not only African Americans but all races and this goal of equality has yet to be reached and may not be achieved ever.

Slavery was not a word that was unknown in the United States of America; the word was at the tip of almost everyone’s tongue, only it came with many names. After the civil war, slavery became more pronounced for the black people. The south then thought something ought to be done and passed laws called the black codes which begun the limitation of blacks’ rights and separated them from the whites; white supremacy began. Before, these laws would have been unnecessary because most of the black people were slaves and they were already segregated in public places like schools and theatres. In 1866, Congress did not like this and they responded to these laws by putting a stop to it. Republicans had managed to begin reconstruction on the society and understand the black community. But in 1877 things took a turn for the worse when the Democratic parties recovered control and stopped the progress of reconstruction. This in turn caused the reverse of all the progress made in the past few years to understand the black community; they lost their rights to hold political seats, vote and generally participate as though they were members of the community. Slowly but surely, the south started to restore their racially unfair laws. The aim of the laws? To ensure segregation and alienation of the black community. One of the main powers taken away was the right to vote and they did this by imposing poll taxes, having expensive fees to be paid at the voting booths and

With the end of the Civil war, many blacks felt that they would start reaping the benefits that had been denied from them for years. Being able to vote, own land, have a voice in political affairs were all goals that they felt were reachable. The era of Reconstruction was the "miracle" they had been searching for. But the South wasn't going down without a fight and blacks would have to wait at least 100 years for Freedom Summer to arrive to receive the "miracle" they wanted. 100 years it took for equality to become more than just a word but a way of life for blacks. But they did enjoy some privileges that weren't available to them.

The thirteenth amendment has been ratified in 1865, which stated the abolition of slavery in United States; it was also the first reconstruction amendment. It followed by fourteenth amendment, prohibits states from denying due process of law and equal protection under law in 1868, and in 1870, the fifteenth amendment which guarantees the right to vote regardless of “race, color or previous conditions of servitude.” The Reconstruction ended when the Compromise of 1877 took place during the Presidential election of Rutherford Hayes, republican, verses Samuel Tilden, democrat. Tilden won the election but the democrats agreed to announce Hayes, the winner if he would remove the last U.S. military troops from South. Everyone knew that if the troops were removed from South then they would obviously return to their “Home Rule”, something that is much more like slavery. But still republicans agreed to the offer and that’s what led to the end of the reconstruction in 1877. Because there were no troops in south now, they started to follow their own rules and regulations, which also involved no pity for poor African-Americans.

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.

Obviously, the beginning of the Reconstruction was when the United States was at it’s lowest point, with no new amendments regarding slavery, with lots of destruction and death, and a lot of work to do ahead. Once things began to progress, things started to look up, especially for African Americans. The United States was becoming a more equalized environment, until the later events from 1870-1877, with the Ku Klux Klan ordeal, and the removal of federal protection in the South. Clearly, this twelve year Reconstruction period had made the US become a better and more controlled place than it was before, but the ending events caused damage to the minorities living in the South which would last for a very long time until the Martin Luther King Jr. era. If it were up to me, I would have kept protection in the South for a longer period of time, until the US was a guaranteed place of

Over 150 years ago, the slaves were proclaimed free by President Lincoln. However many people even today still consider the african-americans under the bindings of slavery and barred from true freedom. The african-american slaves were brought to America while it was still being colonized to replace the rather expensive indentured servants. They were sold into slavery to carry out often harsh chores and tasks for their owner. Eventually, a civil war broke out between the north and south over the south not wanting slavery to be abolished. However, the south lost and President Lincoln established the Emancipation Proclamation, which completely freed the slaves. The period following the civil war, known as reconstruction, was a failure due to the fact that the newly freed slaves still experienced inequality, racism, and exclusion.

When the slaves were freed problems arose either the North or South who was to blame? Reconstruction either to rebuild the infrastructures in the south and what to do with the now free slaves, many had to deal with this situation. For one where would the slaves go now that they’re free. Then what will happen with the south after is has gone through a tough war. The North and South needed to cooperate as they help each other out with their businesses. South worked on agriculture and North worked on manufacturing, they needed each other for a win-win situation. North and South they both killed reconstruction, the south killed it by having angry outbursts and killing, the north killed it by later not caring and ignoring that reconstruction was a thing.

Who killed reconstruction ? Today we are going to discuss who actually did that North or South. Both North and South had same impact on reconstruction,some of them supported it, some were against.But who actually killed it ? The answer is both. Both of them did some steps to kill reconstruction in North and South.

There was a transformation period after the Civil War called the reconstruction during the years 1863 to 1877. The reconstruction was the rebuilding of the United States, mainly in the South. There were three major types of reconstruction, which were political, physical, and social. The political reconstruction allowed some African Americans to vote; however, they had to be literate in order to take the Oath test. Not many African Americans knew how to read and write, because they were slaves and never had the opportunity to be educated. There was the Physical reconstruction, which was the building of sea ports, farming, and railroads, railroads being a major part of the reconstruction. Social Reconstruction was the most important step during the reconstruction, because many families were reunited after being separated from each other at birth, or after years of living together. By being reunited with their families the former slaves had already won the ‘battle’.

The first reason for why blacks were considered free during Reconstruction was because of amendments that were passed between the years of 1865 and 1870. The 14th amendment of Document A gave blacks citizenship. It was passed so that anyone born in the United States are considered as citizens. Also that no state should limit the rights of any of those citizens, without the right from the law. This shows that the black community had equal representation as the whites. Under no circumstances of the law could the black community be identified any differently to the whites. They had their right to life, liberty, and property,

The Reconstruction Era was a period in American history distinguished by the efforts of many to rebuild the South after the end of the Civil War. Following the end of the Civil War, the South was left in an abominable state. Railroad tracks were ruined, homes were destroyed and even previously large bustling cities such as Charleston, Richmond, and Fredericksburg were left devastated. Economically, the South continued to fall since Southern money was now useless. Because it was essential to repair the South and reunite the Nation, Lincoln started the Reconstruction (1865-1877). These efforts, however, were in vain since the Reconstruction was a failure. Black Codes, secret societies restricted the rights of Blacks and the South continued to

More than 4 million slaves were freed in the Confederate states because of the emancipation proclamation, but they did not have jobs, education, places to live, or a guarantee of basic civil rights. Most African-Americans were not able to become financially stable because of the countless problems they encountered while looking for jobs. By 1865, northern freedmen started establishing schools but still, countless people were uneducated. Many of the African-American encountered lots of struggles because they didn’t have civil rights. Reconstruction was an attempt to make the life of an African-American better, but in a way, it just made the life of African-American worse by creating issues like incorporating former slaves into American

Reconstruction was america trying to make the black equal with the whites. They did this to control the behavior of former slaves. So they made laws to where the blacks would be allowed to live “free”

From the book The Warmth of Other Suns, author Isabel Wilkerson …“For all its upheaval, the Civil War had left most blacks in the South no better off economically than they had been before. Sharecropping, slavery’s replacement, kept them in debt and still bound to whatever plantation they worked. But one thing had changed. The federal government had taken over the affairs of the South, during a period known as Reconstruction, and the newly freed men were able to exercise rights previously denied them. They could vote, marry, or go to school…even college set-up by northern philanthropists, open businesses, and run for office under the protection of northern troops.”