Republicans passed legislation for blacks but most of these were ignored by the South. Schools were set up but segregated blacks from whites and literacy rates only increased marginally. Radical Reconstruction was a minor improvement on Presidential Reconstruction but still did not live up to the hopes of African-Americans.
The American civil war was one of the biggest hardships for the young country to endure, and yet it did not prepare them for the tension after. Slavery was the biggest conflict between the Northern states and the Southern states, this what lead us to civil war. Between these national crisis it was the breaking point for the young country.
Reconstruction was needed and the period following the civil war, the reconstruction period, fostered many significant results and achievements especially for Constitutional amendments.
While mending a broken country, the reconstruction period still left many fresh wounds. He also intended long term to end slavery throughout the Union in order for the South to become part of the Union again. Although it was expected the South would have a hard time adjusting to the newly given free rights of many blacks.
The financial gain and rebuilding their towns was expected planned and intended to help the south overcome this negativity. The long term consequence was successful and all the South did return to the Union upholding the freedom of Slaves some with more twists and turns around it then others. A much unexpected result was the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The South was heavily dependent on slave labor in their economy, and they saw this as the North putting them at a large disadvantage economically yet again.
With the North seeking to ban it in the entire country, the South felt their economy would be destroyed, and thus South Carolina was the first to secede. Four other states followed quickly behind their example, and the Civil War began.
A few things at this time still could have prevented a war, such as; the North allowing the South to go, drawing up compromises that allowed slavery to continue in the South but not in the North or any new states, and also peacefully negotiating with the South instead of using the Force Act. The Union decided that the only way the country was complete, was for all of the states to remain within the Union.
Because four million slaves were freed as a result of the Civil War, the economy was destroyed because of the loss of a large labor force. Soon after, Jim Crow laws and segregation increased in southern states. It is likely that Lincoln thus would have battled with Congress over the control of Reconstruction, blocked key Reconstruction policies, and met as vindictive a House as Johnson did All three thus played a role in ending Reconstruction.
The executives bribed dozens of Congressmen and cabinet members in Ulysses S. The scheme was eventually exposed, and many politicians were forced to resign.
When the Depression of struck, northern voters became even less interested in pursuing Reconstruction efforts. Unemployment climbed to 15 percent, and hard currency became scarce. With pressing economic problems, northerners did not have time to worry about helping former slaves, punishing the Ku Klux Klan, or readmitting southern states into the Union. The Resumption Act reduced the amount of currency circulating in the economy in an effort to curb inflation caused by the depression.
Although the act improved economic conditions in the long run, it made for harder times in both the North and South in the short run. The Act was Republican-sponsored, so Democrats were able to capitalize on its unpopularity to rally support for their party. This increased popularity translated into election victories that enabled Democrats to retake the South, bringing Reconstruction to a close. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
Study Questions. In what ways was Reconstruction a success? President Lincoln attempted to put in place the Emancipation Proclamation which stated all slaves in confederate states would be free.
This was to weaken the southern states; except, the confederate states did not obey. In South, torn between the economic benefits of slavery and the moral and constitutional issues raised, and white Southerners grew more and more defensive.
They argued that black people were incapable of caring for themselves. They said that slavery was a benevolent institution that kept them fed, clothed, and occupied. Most Northerners did not doubt that black people being inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery.
The Civil War changed the future of the United States. The American Civil War that was started due to the controversy over slavery in , was won by The Union supported by President Lincoln against the Confederate states. The Reconstruction era was put into effect by the Congress in and lasted until Fearful of abolitionists seeking to incite a slave insurrection to overthrow the southern society, southerners resorted to mass burnings of mail from northern outlets in an attempt to quell the anti-slavery messages.
Despite the abolitionists consisting of a small number of people, the overarching impact of their propaganda and literature caused southerners to take drastic measures as many in the slave states increasingly felt their livelihoods and safety were under attack by an anti-slavery north. During the Civil War each side had some advantages and disadvantages. Before the Civil War there was the election of , President Lincoln was elected president.
The south knew that Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, so the south seceded from the union. Then there was the attack on Fort Sumter, and the war began. This reconstruction plan offered general amnesty to former confederate supporters and to former confederates if they took an oath in which pledged allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery. After those requirements were completed, and the state outlawed slavery, the state could then be readmitted to the Union.
The president felt that only some African Americans deserved the right to vote, with that he decided that only black men who served in the Union army, owned property, or could read would be allowed. With the abolishment of slavery, many of the southern states had to reassemble the social, economic, and political systems instilled in their societies.
The Reconstruction Era was originally led by a radical republican government that pushed to raise taxes, establish coalition governments, and deprive former confederates of superiority they might have once held. However, during this time common views were obtained that the South could recover independently and that African Americans. Some people were for slavery and some people opposed it. Bring equality to slaves during Reconstruction is said to have fail because when Reconstruction was over, blacks were still unable to defend themselves and their rights.
The Reconstruction era might have fail to give blacks social and economical equality at the time, but it brought about many issues of slavery. After the Reconstruction Era, slavery might have died down, but it never died out. This era is what started the issue of slavery, and today slaves are free.
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