To My Honorable Congressman, The purpose of reconstruction has not been fully fulfilled leading me to conclude that we cannot end it just yet. I am writing to you today to inform you on my opinion about authorizing the removal of federal troops from reconstructed Southern states. So far Reconstruction has been successful, as it restored the Confederate states back into the Union to make the United States whole again, but there is still work to be done with integrating freedmen into society. I believe that if we further work on ending segregation, we can be reunited in society as well instead of just being reunited as states in a country. I suppose Southern states, who were in rebellion, successfully fulfilled the requirements of the Reconstruction
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The 13th Amendment was proposed in 1865 and ratified in the same year as it outlawed slavery in the US and many were eager to have it banned soon. They carried this out by not letting any human be a slave to another human again, many believed sharecropping was another form of slavery because it was still labor, but it was never officially declared slavery. The 14th Amendment was proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868, it gave citizenship to everyone born in the US, and was mostly made in case supreme court declared Civil Rights Act unconstitutional. It was also the Amendment to prohibit former Confederate officials from holding office, and since this Amendment gave slaves more freedom, President Johnson urged Southerners to resent this Amendment yet it passed and was implemented. They carried this out by giving citizenship to everyone born in the US, but because the Black Codes restricted African American’s freedom, I do not believe this Amendment completely succeeded in implementing citizenship to all. In 1868 only 8 Northern states allowed African Americans to vote, so they proposed the 15th Amendment in 1869 which gave all citizens the right to vote no matter race, color, or previous condition or servitude. This Amendment was ratified in 1870 and the South carried this out by not refusing to deprive anyone of their voting privileges no matter race, color,
The 13th Amendment was proposed in 1865 and ratified in the same year as it outlawed slavery in the US and many were eager to have it banned soon. They carried this out by not letting any human be a slave to another human again, many believed sharecropping was another form of slavery because it was still labor, but it was never officially declared slavery. The 14th Amendment was proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868, it gave citizenship to everyone born in the US, and was mostly made in case supreme court declared Civil Rights Act unconstitutional. It was also the Amendment to prohibit former Confederate officials from holding office, and since this Amendment gave slaves more freedom, President Johnson urged Southerners to resent this Amendment yet it passed and was implemented. They carried this out by giving citizenship to everyone born in the US, but because the Black Codes restricted African American’s freedom, I do not believe this Amendment completely succeeded in implementing citizenship to all. In 1868 only 8 Northern states allowed African Americans to vote, so they proposed the 15th Amendment in 1869 which gave all citizens the right to vote no matter race, color, or previous condition or servitude. This Amendment was ratified in 1870 and the South carried this out by not refusing to deprive anyone of their voting privileges no matter race, color,