Essay About Reconstruction After Civil War

In the South, reconstruction after the Civil War could have been considered a failure. This is because after the war freed slaves would still live on the plantations that they were freed from and work as sharecroppers. Also with the African Americans free, they wanted to start finding out what happened to their loved ones who were sold away from them. The other problems that they were facing though were racism and hate because of which they were, even though the South would claim that the war was not over slavery, but over states’ rights. In the North on the other had African Americans still experienced racism, and hate because people were scared that as they moved north they were coming to take away the jobs of the northerners. In the South after the Civil War during reconstruction African American still suffered from issues now that they were free, like trying to get their right to vote and be able to vote in a free manner and not have to take a test to be able to vote, or not be afraid of the KKK or Ku Klux Klan or other radical white groups coming to harm them or keep them from voting or practicing their civil rights that were given to them. Even though they had the right to vote and do other things …show more content…
He claimed that the south lost because of the people of the North and abolitionist who want to free the slaves but not have a plan on what to do after they were free. Also because of the reasons that he believed that liberty was for white men only but because of the abolitionist and the rest of the northerners they lost the war and the south went into trouble because the freedom of the slaves made most of the south go broke. Also they still wanted to believe that slavery was right and not wrong because they took care of their slaves and treated them right even though they would separate families and some were treated