The result of the civil war left the south in ruins, freed slaves, and the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. African Americans had a lot to gain through the outcome of the civil war, although life wasn’t as they envisioned it. During the reconstruction era slaves were given rights with great limitations. At best they were treated as second-class citizens. Some African Americans felt that they would be better off returning to the farms where they were slaves, due to extreme the racism and struggle for work. African Americans’ life was not at all what they pictured, although they had schools, they were in very poor condition. When African Americans were freed the federal government granted the former slaves with basic rights. Even though
