Reconstruction led to violence in many cases. The period after the civil war was filled with riots and other criminal activities. Whether the person was Native American, African American, or some other race, the hostility was flowing rapidly. There were few safe places for people of color, Native Americans or African Americans. The issue stems from the loss of the war. The South was not overjoyed that it had to surrender to the North. Many people committed suicide and refused to submit to the Union. The loss was great on both sides. The problem was not originally the African Americans. The problem was succession. The South, however, constantly took its bitterness out on the Freedmen who they saw as inferior to the caucasian race(American
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They were no longer subservient to in some cases, cruel and abusive masters. This would change anyone’s life. The downside was that some slaves were forced off of the only home they had ever known with only the clothes on their backs. Many accounts depict a scene that suggest life on the plantation in some instances was better than the life the reconstruction programs could help them achieve(Daniel Waring Ex-Slave 1937). Some slaves had the privilege to experience master 's with a calm and generous temperament rather than others who saw them as nothing but property. There were occurrences of masters that would provide their slaves with spending money, less harsh labor, and gave the ability to attend church on Sundays (Daniel Waring Ex- Slave 1937). For this reason, they slaves had few qualms about their …show more content…
The Southern society was quickly returned to the hands of its former masters. Plantation owners, with the help of president Johnson, regained their positions of authority and their political offices. They then found additional methods for manipulating the laws and orchestrating a hierarchy where people of any color, Native Americans or Freedmen were back at the bottom. They passed black codes, and Jim Crow laws restricting African Americans to a certain position in society. There were laws against miscegenation. The KKK was created to intimidate and terrorise the African Americans in the South who did not give in to the higher up white people. The KKK mostly targeted the freedmen for political agendas. They wanted to scare them away from the
They were no longer subservient to in some cases, cruel and abusive masters. This would change anyone’s life. The downside was that some slaves were forced off of the only home they had ever known with only the clothes on their backs. Many accounts depict a scene that suggest life on the plantation in some instances was better than the life the reconstruction programs could help them achieve(Daniel Waring Ex-Slave 1937). Some slaves had the privilege to experience master 's with a calm and generous temperament rather than others who saw them as nothing but property. There were occurrences of masters that would provide their slaves with spending money, less harsh labor, and gave the ability to attend church on Sundays (Daniel Waring Ex- Slave 1937). For this reason, they slaves had few qualms about their …show more content…
The Southern society was quickly returned to the hands of its former masters. Plantation owners, with the help of president Johnson, regained their positions of authority and their political offices. They then found additional methods for manipulating the laws and orchestrating a hierarchy where people of any color, Native Americans or Freedmen were back at the bottom. They passed black codes, and Jim Crow laws restricting African Americans to a certain position in society. There were laws against miscegenation. The KKK was created to intimidate and terrorise the African Americans in the South who did not give in to the higher up white people. The KKK mostly targeted the freedmen for political agendas. They wanted to scare them away from the