The End Of Reconstruction During The Civil War

After the Civil War, racism and the fight for justice and equality were far from over. The 12 years after the Civil War were called the reconstruction. The question is, who killed the reconstruction? While the number of freed slaves increased, the resistance to the change rose also, mainly coming from the South. The reconstruction ended for many reasons including violence and threats from the South and overall neglect from the North. While both sides contributed to the death of the reconstruction, the combination of violence and threats in the South made them the main culprit.

Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War. During this period, the U.S faced many challenges such as how to reunite the North and the South and put the Civil War behind us. In addition, the nation needed to address the status of four million freed slaves by granting them citizenship, and protecting their citizenship rights. As years passed, many historians went back and forth of whether or not Congress was a success for the freedmen, or a total blowout. These pieces of evidence concludes that the Congress’ Reconstruction was unfortunately a failure for the freedmen rights.

Reconstruction began early in 1865 after the end of the civil war when the South was undergoing political, social and economic upheavals (Foner 15). The South embraced Union methods of total wars that led to damage to their land and crops. As a result, many people died while others were captured as slaves due to the huge drought and inflation facing their state, while their masters fled oncoming unions. From these losses, policymakers by 1865 in Washington had no other choice rather than reconstruction. Reconstruction involved several initiatives including abolishment and transformation of the Southern society, recovering the Southern Unions and most importantly the enactment of an assimilation legislation program that would aid in favoring the freed blacks into the American social and economic system. President Lincoln had pardoned reconstruction of the South long before in1863 two years before the war ended (Kennedy and Cohen 44). This was known as the ten percent plan that supported one of the initiatives. This plan allowed the Southern state to be assimilated to the union after every ten percent of the population. Later in the year 1865 president Lincoln got assassinated and Andrew Johnson succeeded him. President Johnson carried on with the ten percent plan. Both presidents shared a similar interest during their reign which was to abolish slavery before joining the union.

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes? What did he do while in office? How well did he work with congress? How well did he work with foreign countries? How well did he help the American people? Did he keep the economy ordered and organized? Hayes was the 19th President of the United States, he only served one term as president from 1877 to 1881. He was involved in the ending of the reconstruction, the Dawes Act, The Great Railroad Strike, Colombia and the Monroe Doctrine, etc. Hayes tried to do things he thought was good for this country but little did he know it made things worst than what they already were.

After the civil war, the southern states were severely crippled by more than $2 billion of debt. Most of the battles and destruction occurred on southern soil so the South was not in good condition. The Reconstruction was necessary because the South was in poor condition and people feared that the southern states would not rejoin the union and the US would not be the same.

During the times of reconstruction, Lincoln wished to reunite the country both physically and metaphorically. By this, he intended to have certain hoops the southern states had to jump through before they could regain their statehood. However, due to his death this did not come to complete fruition. Johnson technically made the southern states do certain things before they could rejoin the union, but basically the terms could be met simply by a few individuals telling pretty lies. Also with Johnson, Black Codes were created that returned slavery to the country. Reconstruction itself was a major failure in what it actually accomplished in that time, but the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments that were passed made it possible for future civil rights

The reconstruction period was right after the civil war and was started because of the war damage to the south. The reconstruction period started in 1865, after the war ended, and lasted until 1877. There was two parts of the reconstruction period the first was when the presidents where starting to return the southern sates to being part of the USA, because they left the USA to be their own countries. The second part of the reconstruction period was when congress took over the project from the presidents in 1866 until 1877. During the reconstruction period the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the constitution where passed. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments ended slavery, gave a better definition of citizenship

From April 12, 1861, to May 9, 1865, the United States had one of its bloodiest conflicts that it was ever involved in. The Civil War was a war between the North and the South of the United States. During this war, there were around 620,000 men that were killed. This war ended after Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered his troops. At this point the fighting had ceased, however, the tensions between the North and the South were still present. There were still disagreements on the rights of the now freed blacks.

The Civil War was a bloody time for the US, and we have been in shambles. We needed to regroup and rebuild. This era after the civil war changed into is called Reconstruction.

Reconstruction has been brutally murdered! For a little over a decade after the Civil War, the victorious North launched a campaign of social, economic, and political recovery in the former Confederacy and to readmit the land in the former Confederacy back into the United States as states. Reconstruction yielded many benefits for African Americans. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments freed African Americans, made them citizens, and gave them the right to vote respectively. The Freedmen’s Bureau also provided African Americans and poor whites with education, jobs, and supplies. Despite this, Reconstruction was cut short in 1877. The North killed Reconstruction because of racism, negligence, and distractions.

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 Reconstruction Era, between the years of 1865-1877, was the difficult time because of post-war problems. The plan for the reconstruction of the South for Lincoln was to do so during the Civil War and form as Union soldiers. The Civil War was a time of anger between the north and the south. Although the war only lasted for four years, it was concluded as the bloodiest war and most importantly the result would affect the United States as a country forever. The outcome lasted in the Union winning, which was the north.

Many historians argue about the result of the reconstruction. By reading the sources I concluded that the American reconstruction after the war was somewhat successful. According to Frances after the civil war, the north sent many generals to the south to control territories until the land was settling. According to her augments the claims that the generals would force the people to bow down to them. People in the south considered them as tyrants. Another thing that many people in the south were angry about was the fact that most black in the south had more right to vote that some of the whites themselves. She mentions that if blacks in the north could not vote why the blacks in the south should (366). This clearly shows the high disapproval

Reconstruction refers to the time period after the Civil War when the Union worked to reintegrate the Southern states that had seceded from the union, and were eventually defeated in the Civil War. The Reconstruction era occurred between 1865-1877 (American Destiny, pg. 409).

America: “The land of the free, and the home of the brave” (Key 7-8). When our forefathers overcame the colonial reign of the British Empire, they formed the United States of America based on the premise of enlightened ideals promoting life, ownership of land, and liberty. But after the revolution, the country’s problems were far from solved. The country’s post-revolution issues sparked a Civil War, which was followed by a reconstruction. In some ways, the Civil War and Reconstruction helped the United States accomplish its original goals, but in many ways, that was not the case.