The main purpose of the period between 1865 to 1877 known as Reconstruction, as its name suggests it was uniting the states after the Civil War. However, the Reconstruction period was mainly destructive to the United States. It caused terrorism, economic issues and political division between radical and moderate Republicans. Three important amendments were passed out to protect the civil rights of freedmen and helped them become part of society, but at the end racism and discrimination from the Southerners lead by Jim Crow caused a reversion of the achievements the Congress once accomplished.
The Freedmen’s Bureau was an important step toward Reconstruction, but unfortunately the Republicans failed to protect the former slaves from white terrorism and persecution caused by secret organizations as the Ku Klux Klan. Ironically, the Congress tried to combat the atrocities against African Americans with the Enforcement Acts of 1870, but nevertheless they later pardoned their offenses by the Amnesty Act of 1872. Furthermore, scandals and fights were very common at that time. In Grant’s presidency emerged political issues as the Credit Mobilier scandal and the panic of 1873. The sharecropping system was also a disadvantage that …show more content…
The first step toward reversion was the assassination of president Lincoln. After his death the Southerner vice-president took the power, therefore, he was from the South his beliefs were in disfavored of the Fourteenth Amendment. The impeachment process can be seen as dishonorable. Although, some years later education and the right to vote became a luxury and Jim Crow proposed and arose segregation due to his laws. Although, another anti-progressive act was the ratification of the black codes. These laws limited the rights that the Congress once protected with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
The Freedmen’s Bureau was an important step toward Reconstruction, but unfortunately the Republicans failed to protect the former slaves from white terrorism and persecution caused by secret organizations as the Ku Klux Klan. Ironically, the Congress tried to combat the atrocities against African Americans with the Enforcement Acts of 1870, but nevertheless they later pardoned their offenses by the Amnesty Act of 1872. Furthermore, scandals and fights were very common at that time. In Grant’s presidency emerged political issues as the Credit Mobilier scandal and the panic of 1873. The sharecropping system was also a disadvantage that …show more content…
The first step toward reversion was the assassination of president Lincoln. After his death the Southerner vice-president took the power, therefore, he was from the South his beliefs were in disfavored of the Fourteenth Amendment. The impeachment process can be seen as dishonorable. Although, some years later education and the right to vote became a luxury and Jim Crow proposed and arose segregation due to his laws. Although, another anti-progressive act was the ratification of the black codes. These laws limited the rights that the Congress once protected with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth