The American Civil War helped to save the nation by rejoining Union Confederate and as result of

After the Civil War, the southern soldiers were going back to devastated cities, destroyed railroads, and many cities were burned to the ground as a result of Sherman’s march from sea to sea. After the Civil War occurred, the slaves were given freedom from their owners, and slavery was banned. That attempt at reconstruction was not a complete fail, but it took a little bit of time for America to give social and economic equality to slaves. There were many attempts made by several different presidents, but not all seemed to work due to the South’s stubbornness. The failure of reconstruction later did not bring social and economic equality to former slaves in the south because of things like the Jim Crow laws and the South’s strong disproval

     One of the major issues of the Civil War was slavery, and even with a victory by the North, blacks rights did not improve very much. Throughout individual Southern states, Black Codes were passed in state legislatures to repress the suffrage of black males. “All freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattos…with no lawful employment or business… shall be fined… and imprisoned…” In an effort to counteract these laws, the federal government passed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. These Amendments were only effective to a minimal degree, because the Southerners found other ways to restrict the opportunities of blacks. Southern whites organized secret societies such as the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate blacks and white reformers. Often times, violence was used by these secret societies to express their views. These Reconstruction policies dealing with blacks were not very efficient, for blacks did not receive equal

The Reconstruction Period was a period of great disaster for the United States. Although the goal of the Reconstruction Period was to give African Americans rights, the only thing given to the freedmen was the lack of rights. From violence without consequence towards African Americans and segregation that was so split that it couldn’t be left unnoticed. Even Congress was corrupt enough to think that segregation was a perfectly legal practice. The events of Reconstruction ended up doing more harm than good towards freedmen since they were treated as an afterthought.

Reconstruction was forcibly imposed on the southern states by the government, with the presence of overbearing federal troops, and, as a result, racial attitudes in the south didn’t really evolve during this period. With the support of a conservative Supreme Court, black codes, voter qualifications, and other anti-progressive legislation were passed through state governments to reverse the rights that blacks had gained during Radical Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson had already provided generous pardons to virtually the entire Confederacy, so the same leadership had come into play, eventually instituting brutally racist governments. Because the North stopped enforcing Federal civil rights law in the South after 1876, the freed slaves lost all political

Before the Civil War, African Americans living in America were seen and treated as lesser persons, primarily by not having voting rights and not being given equal treatment in relation to the law. When the war ended in 1865, many changes were made, some good and some bad. The bad that came from the war was that so much destruction was caused, specifically in the south; many means of transportation was ruined. Although the destruction caused a major setback, much good came about from the war, like the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment, the amendment that ended slavery, states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,

The Reconstruction Era which followed the Civil War was a period marked by a severe effort to re-establish a depleted and distraught society. The war, which was aimed at confronting the national dilemma of slavery, only led to subsequent problems over emancipation and an undefined condition of freedom. Some, who had naively assumed that ending slavery would resolve the problem of racial inequality, overlooked the prejudice and unpleasant feeling towards blacks.

The Union’s victory in the Civil War in 1865 granted millions of slaves their freedom. Reconstruction is the period directly following the Civil War when the nation took strides to rebuild the country, specifically the South. After the war, there were endless questions. They wanted to know on what terms should the Confederacy be let back into the Union, and what to do with the Confederate leaders who were viewed as traitors by many in the North. Then, there was the question of what would happen to freed blacks in the South, would they now be considered equal to whites? Despite the military conflict being over, Reconstruction was in many ways still considered a war. Radical Republicans, who held sufficient power in Congress, wanted to punish the South and

In 1865, Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau, which aided freedmen (freed slaves). It provided food, clothing, medical care, and education to freedmen and even to white refugees. However, it did not give the freedmen the promised forty-acre tracts that were formerly owned by the Confederacy. Instead, blacks were persuaded to sign labor contracts to work for their former owners. The Freedmen’s Bureau was very helpful, especially in education, for the former slaves. However, President Andrew Johnson believed that whites were much superior compared to the blacks, similar to the view of the south. He repeatedly tried to abolish the Freedmen’s Bureau, and it was terminated in

The civil war ended in 1865 and the period after that was known as the reconstruction era. Many people claim the the North had won the war but lost peace to the south and had secured no permanent political or economic rights in the postwar period. During this time, many laws were issued to secure African American rights because of the undermining in the south. Though the reconstruction failed to improve the conditions of African Americans, their lives had drastically changed throughout the war and reconstruction era.

However, overall, Reconstruction was unsuccessful. Although the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was established by President Abraham Lincoln, offered food, medical help, education, and assistance to newly freed slaves, many other societies like the Ku Klux Klan set out to terrorize African Americans. Also, laws were passed to restrict African American from enjoying their new freedoms. Reconstruction was an important time period in United States History. It was the aftermath of the Civil War. It was a time period when African Americans were assimilated into American culture. In fact, although it officially ended in 1877, reconstruction is still occurring today. African Americans are still not treated as well as other Americans are. Reconstruction is an important time period on which we can reflect and plan on how to treat African Americans. Many plans did not work out for Reconstruction, and now is the time when we can improve our ways and finally treat African Americans as

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

The end of the Civil War seemed to be a glorious time and African Americans were especially confident that things would change significantly when considering their position in the country. Lincoln's experiments with providing slaves with land further reinforced their hopes and influenced them in considering that racism would no longer be a pressing problem under the circumstances. Individuals supporting the Reconstruction got actively engaged in helping any way that they could and they actually played an important role in helping society understand that it needed to refrain from discriminating African Americans. The eleven seceding states were believed to have learned an important lesson and everything seemed to be getting back to normal, with the principal exception being that African Americans had become equal to white people.

Moreover, the subsequent time period following the war was deemed the period of Reconstruction, a time of mending a restoration after the detriment of war. However, it was during that time that southern whites attempted to regress back to enslavement by perpetuating their preeminence over blacks and instituting restraints on the rights of the freshly freedmen. Such measures as the Black Codes and the KKK were implemented within the South to regulate the actions of African Americans as though they were in slavery but without the security of safety that comes with being considered property. Though chattel slavery had been abolished, the abruptness of its termination left several pertinent issues unresolved in relation to the status of African Americans. The terms of the war only required the southern states to remove the succession clause from their state constitutions. However, in spite of its connotation of brutality, the period of Reconstruction was also beneficial in some repute as it established public education for both blacks and whites.

In 1865, slavery was officially ended, however, in 1870 a new form of slavery was created through intimidation and deception. In an attempt to reunite the nation after the civil war, America had to try and rebuild the south both economically and socially with a plan of reconstruction. Over time reconstruction was neglected by the government. Those who suffered the most from this neglect were the newly freedmen who were not given what they were promised, threatened for practicing their newly established rights, and were tricked by white southerners; making reconstruction a failure for them.

The period which followed the end of the Civil War was called the Reconstruction. The South was a disaster, and the North was dealing with the economic and social damage that the South had incurred. The states needed to work to build themselves back to what they had been prior to the destruction caused by the Civil War. Blacks were no longer slaves. They were granted the same legal protections as whites through the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution (Byng). They were given their freedom. They were recognized as citizens of the United States. They were given the right to vote. Many African Americans were able to serve in public offices. These new liberties and responsibilities, however, did not come easily to them, and with the end of the Reconstruction era, they abruptly halted (Byng).