The Freedpeople Big Question Analysis

The Freedpeople “Big Question” In order to answer any questions about history that as why or how, we must first look at the people involved. The portion of history immediately following the American Civil War are also known as the Reconstruction Era. It is difficult to name an era while experiencing it, so why is it considered the reconstruction era? The term reconstruction does not mean the rebuilding of a physical building or place when talked about in the sense of the Era. Reconstruction when looking at post-civil war times is aimed at the reconstruction of values and rights. During the civil war one of the largest issues was the black men/women’s’ place in society either as property or as people. The era redefined individual rights for example, freed blacks had the right to be an individual, but were still not equally treated as whites. The most difficult question in the Reconstruction Era was, what rights should freedpeople have? Throughout the next fourteen years the nation would debate this crucial idea. As the debate became a larger issue there became three major sides democrats, republicans, and black freedmen. The northern an southern whites treated the black population as mindless child-like beings. Throughout history before, during, and after the civil war the majority of the …show more content…
First imagining a building, then arguing with other architectural parties on what it should look like and what purpose it should have, after that actually beginning the project with new steel beam laws, finally the finished product of a standing house. However it will remain unstable even in the present.over time the black freedmen and republicans reached a mutual definition of what freedom was and overpowered the souths traditional slavery mindset. The time period should also be considered the great take over after the majority of laws created by the south were overruled by the