The Reconstruction Effort That Occurred After The Civil War

During this time many things were done to help free blacks in the South. The thirteenth amendment prohibited slavery. The Freedmen's Bureau was created to assist blacks with things such as education and finding homes. The

In hindsight it is sometimes claimed that Reconstruction was a failure. Although there was some good that came out of the Reconstruction it was mostly just a relentless uphill battle against Southerners and immoral politicians that were here to delay change and keep racism alive. Reconstruction brought the Ku Klux Klan who displayed great resistance, and poverty that swept the South once the blacks were freed. The freedom of these black slaves led to discriminatory legislatures such as the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws to keep the blacks constrained from actually being free. The South was then encountered with corruption and high property taxes, as a rebuild was in order to reestablish the war torn part of the nation.

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.

Post-civil war the torn nation juggles wide ranges of emotions as they attempt to piece together the shattered unity but didn’t know how to go about doing so. President Lincoln had great plans for the reconstruction but was killed before he could put them into action. He was murdered by John Booth at Ford Theater and passed the next morning. Lincoln’s Vice-president, Andrew Johnson, took over and became the new president. Johnson and Congress argued about how to go about the reconstruction and in the end Congress enacted their own laws and amendments that strengthened the federal government. Freedmen weren’t truly free after the Civil war ended, free in name only. Ex-Confederates were less than the Northerners and didn’t get the rights

1. The war in 1862 was only more than a year old and the people in both the Union and Confederate sides didn’t anticipate it would last that long, but it is going to go on. Close to the end of the summer in this same year, the Union has made huge progress in claiming confederate lands, winning some major battles. They have put the confederacy in the defensive. They have taken over New Orleans, with even black troops major on the ground of New Orleans. They have taken Missouri and are working hard to take over the Mississippi Valley and maybe even Richmond itself. Bruce Catton puts it this way in The Civil War, “Except for guerrilla activity, Kentucky and Missouri has been swept clear of armed confederates, Western Tennessee had been reclaimed, there was a Yankee army in Cumberland Gap, another one was approaching chattanooga, and a third was sprawled out from Memphis to Corinth, preparing to splice down through Mississippi and touch hands with the Union occupation forces in Baton Rouge and New Orleans” (85) So not only that they Union had taken over regions, they are advancing as well, but they did not win the way this year for some reason. Firstly, because they did not have generals and army heads capable of taking them to victory. General Halleck, chief of the Union Armies and Pope in charge of one of the Union armies in Virginia, were major examples of this.

In 1861-1865, The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free (northerners) and slave states (south) over the power of the government to end slavery in the places that had not yet become states. This is when in 1865, the United States defeated the North and abolished slavery nationwide. As the war was about to end, the southern states were re-admitted to the United States. The northern states added the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment give them rights to to be citizens, and the 15th Amendment gave the right to vote.

The Reconstruction Era can be distinguished from other eras by looking at the relationships between the northern and the southern regions, along with the rights of African Americans. Having won the Civil War, the northern part of the country (anti-slavery) pushed for more rights and freedoms for those freed from slavery.

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.

Reconstruction is the rebuilding of a country after a largely impacted war. The US reconstructed their country after the damage of the Civil War. This lasted 12 long years. Reconstruction was not only physically rebuilding buildings, it was altering the government, the beliefs of the people, food, shelter, and homes, and much more.

The Radical Republican Party wanted all freed slaves and blacks to have equal rights, as well as the emergence of a new southern society based on small farmers. To help reincorporate freed slaves into society Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau in which helped the ex-slaves and their families obtain jobs, an education, healthcare, and becoming a property owner. Not only did they help with these things but also the protection of the ex-slaves legal rights as citizens. The Freedmen’s Bureau was one of the few successes that Reconstruction had for African Americans. The 13th Amendment, the abolition of slavery, was also another success however even though it gave blacks freedom it did not give security or

After four years of fighting between the Union and the Confederacy in the American Civil War, it was finally decided in 1864 that the 11 southern states that seceded from the nation would be restored into the Union once again. However, the problems of reconstructing the Union were just as difficult as the war itself had been. Because most of the war was fought on Southern ground, the South had been devastated both physically and economically. Helping former slaves and making state governments loyal to the Union also presented various problems that would take years to resolve.

Rebuilding after the war was not just their homes but also the economic lives of planters and former slaves. Farmers found it hard to adjust to the end of slavery because they were able to control their labor force and wanted to restore the old discipline but were meant with opposition from the freed people, who equated freedom with economic autonomy. Many freed slaves believed that their years of labor should give them a claim to land; their rally cry became, "forty acres and a mule" became their rallying cry. Whites didn’t want to sell to blacks, and the federal government decision not to sell land in the South, meant that only a small amount of the freed people became landowners. During Reconstruction, some small white farmers, were thrown

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.

and in reality it was a demonstration of the failure to make a dependable political

Discuss the characteristics of the different attempts at Reconstruction (wartime, Lincoln’s plan, Johnson’s plan, and Radical)