Was Reconstruction A Success Or A Failure

The Reconstruction Era lasted up to 1877 from the time just after the Civil War. The Reconstruction failed to bring about social and economic equality to the former slaves due to the southern whites’ resentful and bitter outlook on the matter, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Jim Crow laws.

The United States changed dramatically during the reconstruction period. After the reconstruction period, the United Stated continued to adjust well as we see it change economically and politically. Though the adjustment continued to go well, the change that occurs after reconstruction is emphasized with industrialization and the impact that industrialization has in certain regions of the U.S and on the people. Along with the new economy came with complications that affected the improvement of conditions in work and in life.

Until this day, the American Civil War is still one of the most prominent wars that was ever fought in America. The war was first caused by the disagreement between the Federalists and Anti-federalists regarding on how the United States should be governed. Soon, the war began and gunshots exploded the country everyday. The war continued on for several years and in 1865, the war finally ended and America was already torn into pieces. Following the war, the Congressmen had to recover from its loss and settle the disagreements that existed in Congress in order to prevent another war from happening. Therefore, the Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteenth Amendments, also known as the Reconstruction Amendments were passed as an attempt to achieve peace

Reconstruction was a failure because, during the reconstruction era, congress had become very radical and powerful because they could never agree with Andrew Johnson and with Andrew Johnson as president, they couldn’t get much done because congress and Andrew Johnson had opposite views. Despite having different views on important topics, congress got almost anything they wanted because they had more members that wanted to be strict on the south than members who wanted to be lenient on the south. This radical congress ended its “dictatorship” 1877 when they longer could control everything and the houses were finally balanced. This radical congress had also caused problems in politics by getting president Andrew Johnson impeached and causing

The Reconstruction Era of 1865-1877 proved to be one of triumph and disappointments for many. The end of the Civil War brought on feelings of freedom and the vision of great things on the horizon for slaves. At the same time, feelings of despair and that the Civil War was a “lost cause” was a common feeling among many white Americans.

After the Civil War ended, the United States began to reconstruct its broken Union. However, this renewal failed very severely. The primary reason for this was that it was more deeply rooted in the history of the United States and filled with American sectional and race relations. Many white Americans were not capable to recognize that blacks were equal beings too because they mostly had considered them as being lesser beings. This feeling caused the Reconstruction to fail.

As a country, America has gone though many political changes throughout its lifetime. Leaders have come and gone, and all of them have had their own objectives and plans for the future. As history has taken its course, though, almost all of these “revolutionary movements” have come to an end. One such movement was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a violent period that defined the defeated South’s status in the Union and the meaning of freedom for ex-slaves. Though, like many things in life, it did come to an end, and the resulting outcome has been labeled both a success and a failure.

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

After the Civil war ended, the United States had to reintegrate both a formerly slave population and a formerly rebellious population back into the country. After Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson was guiding Reconstruction. He was a Southerner, he resented all the elites in the south who had snubbed him, and he was also a racist who didn’t think that blacks should have any role in Reconstruction. Between 1865 and 1867, Johnson appointed provisional governors and ordered them to all state conventions to establish new all-white governments. Those governments looks suspiciously like the old confederate governments they had replaced. Many schools were established at that time. Johnson ordered all land

Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 - gave each state 30,000 acres of federal land per member of congress of the state

In the lead-up to WWI, the United States faced a variety of economic fortunes and misfortunes. After the Civil War, there had been unprecedented economic growth, however the Panic of 1873, shook the economy to its core. Recovering from the Panic took the recovery of American industries, such as tobacco farming and cotton. However, competition in both of these areas had increased and markets that previously relied on American exports, such as Great Britain, had found, or created, new sources for these goods. That left the US in a position where it needed to find new markets for its goods. And if Europe wasn’t that market, then it had to be South or East.

Reconstruction for the United States was a roller coaster of sorts, especially for the South and the newly freed slaves (henceforth Freedmen). The freeing of slaves was not an automatic and immediate action just because the South lost. Some states kept slaves in bondage until the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863). The newly freed slaves welcomed the proclamation; however, there was an amount of anxiety, fear, jubilation, and uncertainty associated with it. Technically, they were free, but in the eyes of the South, they were lost property and their freedom was begrudged; which made life tough for the new Freedmen (Gordon-Reed, 2015).

Reconstruction was a time period from 1865-1877 immediately following the Civil War in hopes of rebuilding the United States, where several different groups in the government tried to solve the economic, political, and social problems that was a result of the Civil War. Whites didn’t want change they felt they didn’t need any sort of help or correction and blacks only wanted their freedom and to be able to own their own land. Although Reconstruction did a whole lot of good for the nation and the southerners, it didn’t entirely result in a success in the

After the triumph of the Union came to Reconstruction. Reconstruction was in the time range of 1865-1877. President Lincoln,the former president of the Union, was assassinated ,afterward, Vice President Andrew Johnson became president. As a result of Lincoln not having a play by play action on paper as to what he was going to rebuild or reconstruct the Union, Andrew was left without an idea on what to do. Reconstructing the Union left many questions such as, what labor would take place if there were no slaves and what kind of rights would the 4 million freedmen get. I subjectively believe that the reconstruction was a failure with a few good things hidden in between . In this essay, I will detail my own plans for Reconstruction.

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.