In the southern United States, after the Civil War Reconstruction was occurring throughout the country, this Reconstruction occurred during the time of 1865 to 1877. During this time period, Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the union. Radical Republicans were people in Congress who seized control of the Reconstruction and passed laws expanding the rights of African Americans, also known as freedmen. However, while Reconstruction was trying to give equal rights to the freedmen, the discrimination and segregation overtook the radical republican's laws. Reconstruction was not successful in granting African Americans social, political, and economic equality. One of the rights that Reconstruction failed to protect was social equality, Social equality is a state of
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Often they were uneducated and could not argue with landowners or merchants who cheated them. A sharecropper frequently became tied to one plantation, having no choice but to work until his debts were paid.” This is evidence of how Reconstruction failed to protect economic equality because during the time of Reconstruction, freedmen only knew how to work on plantations, so most of the African Americans still worked on plantations but were getting paid. However, sharecropping was cheating because the plantation owners were required to provide clothing and food for the workers, but when it came to the end of the year when the plantation owners and freedmen squared up with the deals, the landowner then said that the sharecropper owes more than he has earned, to pay the debt the sharecropper must promise landowner a greater share of next years promise. This is all about bringing back the idea of slavery and destroying the purpose of reconstruction. All-in-all, Reconstruction failed to grant African Americans economic
Often they were uneducated and could not argue with landowners or merchants who cheated them. A sharecropper frequently became tied to one plantation, having no choice but to work until his debts were paid.” This is evidence of how Reconstruction failed to protect economic equality because during the time of Reconstruction, freedmen only knew how to work on plantations, so most of the African Americans still worked on plantations but were getting paid. However, sharecropping was cheating because the plantation owners were required to provide clothing and food for the workers, but when it came to the end of the year when the plantation owners and freedmen squared up with the deals, the landowner then said that the sharecropper owes more than he has earned, to pay the debt the sharecropper must promise landowner a greater share of next years promise. This is all about bringing back the idea of slavery and destroying the purpose of reconstruction. All-in-all, Reconstruction failed to grant African Americans economic