Causes Of The Reconstruction Revolution

The Reconstruction Revolution was the period after the beginning of Reconstruction of the South. The main goal of Reconstruction was to answer two questions in America. What was the status of the Confederate States and how will they become part of the Union? And, what’s the status of former slaves? Beginning in 1865 shortly after the death of President Abe Lincoln, the new President Andrew Johnson took office. Johnson’s idea of reconstruction was a lenient policy. He would allow the southern states to re-enter after they swore loyalty to the Union and ratify the 13th Amendment which gave slaves their freedom. The Confederate politicians and military leaders who swore loyalty to the Union would have their liberties restored too. By December …show more content…
It also made Confederate states ratify the 13th and 14th Amendment before they could re-enter the Union, and established African American voting rights. By 1868 seven Confederate states had been accepted back into the Union. The Freedmen’s Bureau at this point had helped freedmen gain an education, gave them jobs in building roads, and helped them establish civil rights groups. In 1870 Congress passed the 15th Amendment granting all African Americans the right to vote no matter what state they were in, and it allowed the government to use military force to protect these rights against groups like the KKK. The Reconstruction Revolution ended in 1972 and the Reconstruction Counter Revolution began. Due to the economic crash in 1873, multiple scandals during the Ulysses Grant presidency, the growth of critics towards reconstruction, and successful anti-Reconstruction propaganda campaigns Congress shutdown their Reconstruction efforts after all the Confederate states had been brought back into the Union. After this Democrats began to take back Congress from the Republicans and Reconstruction was finally