End Of Reconstruction Dbq Analysis

1876 marked an important year in the America, that year marked the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the end of reconstruction.That year the election of 1876 officially crushed the American dream for millions of black Americans living in the South. The Civil War the policy of reconstruction was developed for the purpose of reconnecting the eleven states that had left the Union and welcoming the millions of freedmen as full American citizens. In other words it was a new way to rebuild the South and it gave the blacks the right to vote and to have an education but by 1877 that plan was dead. Reconstructions means to rebuilding.Who caused reconstruction to end? Even Though, the North also had to deal with the end of reconstruction the South had the same of the fault of the end of reconstruction. …show more content…
According to document A this shows that the Southern states still just wanted the white to do everything and didn't want the blacks to have freedom.This document (A) shows the ku Klux Klan hanging the scalawags and carpetbaggers. Document B is a testimony from Abram Colby testifying how the Klan took him out of his bed and took him to the woods and started whipping him and left him as if he was died. colby was a slave who was elected for the Georgia state legislature during reconstruction so document B shows that the Southern states didn't want tha or didn't agree with that.According to document A and document B they both show how the South had a big part to the end of