The Reconstruction of America

Lincoln’s Shadow: Reconstruction in Postwar South The Reconstruction of the South remains, to this day, one of the most dividing topics amongst historians, dunces and anything in the between. It is capable of sparking passionate debates, yet incapable of ushering in change, as America can thankfully remind itself that Reconstruction has long since passed. Although some changes may have behooved the period, their literal implication is out of the question. Instead, the focus of the controversy…

take charge of the Reconstruction- a period that would restore America’s economy and attempt to instill civil rights for everyone, regardless of skin color. The South was racist and a lot more vocal about their prejudices, but the North did not do as much as they should have. Their media printed racist letters, the citizens turned indifferent to the events going on in the South, and the president was too busy with the less important issues going on, neglecting the Reconstruction.…

political and social conditions that denied blacks the political opportunities to organize and protest to “King Cotton” and Compromise of 1876 that ended Radical Reconstruction. To southern cotton suppliers and northern industrialists, the degree of political and economic freedom granted to blacks with emancipation and promised with Reconstruction raised…

The Reconstruction Era was when North America fought for the blacks living in the South. African Americans were brought into the united states and held slaves for wealthy American families. They were denied their rights and freedom. Abraham Lincoln started the Civil War and was the first one to stand up for the Negro community. Abraham Lincoln was the one that built the “new south”, although he successfully made a new name for the south, equality was not happening. Blacks were still being…

darkest and bloodiest period in American history with 620,000 lives lost. After it’s end America needed a period of rebuilding, Reconstruction. Reconstruction lasted throughout the U.S. from 1865 to 1877. Who, the North or South, put an end to America’s reassembly in 1877? The South killed Reconstruction through violent, political, and social conflicts. Hate crimes ran rampant in the South during the Reconstruction Era. The amount of violence was so extreme it was even acknowledged by northern…

Leadership Leadership is portrayed through many ways. Whether it is seen at home, school, or community, it is likely done for the same purpose: displaying yourself as a role model. Many presidents have shown a good representation of the United States of America. There is Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama who have demonstrated great leadership. Lincoln has shown leadership since a young child. Beyond all, Abraham Lincoln has made it evident that he is notable…

and Violence During Reconstruction by Catherine Clinton. In this brief twenty page work, Clinton narrows her focus on the history of the Reconstruction era to the undersold experience of black freedwomen who underwent monstrous and routine sexual abuse and rape by white southerners. My initial impression of this article is that it succinctly captures the rotten history of America by explicitly exploring the experiences of sexual violence against black women during reconstruction, a history that…

Reconstruction was put in place to rebuild the south. There were a few positive aspects of reconstruction. One would be reunification of the Union as it had been separated for 4 years. Another would be the expansion of both the North and the South's economies. Reconstruction allowed for all to be educated and it was forced in the south. Some failures of reconstruction would be poverty which was still popular in the south, slow industrialization of th south, and the violence and discrimination…

of slaves in the United States. The release of this document was just the start of the post-civil war era and led to many factors that contributed to racism in America not only politically but economically and socially as well. The beginning of this post-civil war era marked what is now known as the reconstruction era. The reconstruction era took place between 1865 and 1877. There was a lot of work to be done in the South to repair and restore the damages that had been done during the Civil…

Both the reconstruction and the civil rights movement periods are important in the history of the united states because they try to explain how different races, sexes, religious groups, and people from different countries came about to acquire their rights. The reconstruction period specifically focuses on the period after the civil war whereby both the southern and the northern states were looking forward to being united once more. The reconstruction period lasted between 1861 to 1867 (Horton…