Between 1861 and 1877, the United States experienced Reconstruction after one of the most brutal Civil War to date. The North and South division over slavery provoked the South to seceding and becoming the Confederate States of America. There was many positive and negative aspects to the Civil War. Some positive outcomes from the Civil War was the newfound freedom of slaves and the improvement in women’s reform. Some negative outcomes from the Civil War was the South’s loss of land and crop from the devastated land left behind and the South’s hold on to racism.
After the Civil War ended and the devastation, the country experienced. Many Americans lost their lives during the Civil War; however, there was some positive outcomes. The North did …show more content…
The expanse of war in the South was much larger than in the North. Leaving many plantation destroyed and the cotton market that would not recover. The Civil War was viewed by the South as the “Lost Cause” (textbook, 452) justifying the defeat by moving on hoping for a better future. In turn, the white southern seen the African Americans as “adversaries” (textbook, 453) seeing them as challenging the superiority of white southerner. With so much destruction of property and the defeat to the psych of the southern people. The Civil War created a harmful outlook toward African American as inferior race that would last for the next …show more content…
The Civil War was positive with freeing African American from slavery and reform for women. The North had a better economic outcome during the war versus that of the devastated lands left behind in the South. Reconstruction brought legislation of civil rights and all men the right to vote no matter of race. Reconstruction did bring a few positive things to America, but overall outcome did not meet the original intent that Reconstruction meant to be. The devastation that war brings there will always be positive and negatives outcomes. The learning from each one of those will provide the most benefit for the future success of all
After the Civil War ended and the devastation, the country experienced. Many Americans lost their lives during the Civil War; however, there was some positive outcomes. The North did …show more content…
The expanse of war in the South was much larger than in the North. Leaving many plantation destroyed and the cotton market that would not recover. The Civil War was viewed by the South as the “Lost Cause” (textbook, 452) justifying the defeat by moving on hoping for a better future. In turn, the white southern seen the African Americans as “adversaries” (textbook, 453) seeing them as challenging the superiority of white southerner. With so much destruction of property and the defeat to the psych of the southern people. The Civil War created a harmful outlook toward African American as inferior race that would last for the next …show more content…
The Civil War was positive with freeing African American from slavery and reform for women. The North had a better economic outcome during the war versus that of the devastated lands left behind in the South. Reconstruction brought legislation of civil rights and all men the right to vote no matter of race. Reconstruction did bring a few positive things to America, but overall outcome did not meet the original intent that Reconstruction meant to be. The devastation that war brings there will always be positive and negatives outcomes. The learning from each one of those will provide the most benefit for the future success of all