The Reconstruction period was a major downfall, mostly toward the African Americans. The Radical Republicans failed as well with their job to protect the African Americans or former slaves from the white persecution that was going on at the time. Also the Northern democrats felt as though they wanted to stop all of what was going on throughout the whole reconstruction, including the right to fight for blacks rights, they wanted it all the end. While the ex-confederates choose to fill no remorse for what they did nor did they fill guilty about anything
The reconstruction era for African American was a very hard time and struggle. I don’t believe that this period was a good thing to happen for African Americans, it actually did not help them …show more content…
For example the share cropping system, the whole share cropping system was to have black families rent a small portion of land and in return for a portion of their crops. This portion of their crops was to be given to their white landowner at the end of the each year. While all this was happening freed African Americans choose to follow William T. Sherman, who was a general from the union army troops. In 1865 Sherman issued a temporary plan granting that each freed slave family receives 40 acres of land. Also the Union army gave away some of their mules to the former slaves because they were no longer need for battle. Hints the term 40 acres and a mule came from. Most former slaves strove to exercise their liberty to the fullest, as they sought to reunite families and claim their independence from their former masters as much as possible. While white vigilantes resorted to murder, lynching, and other acts of brutality to force blacks to limit their horizons. African American saw this as an opportunity to have their own and to be somewhat untied from their former white slave owners (pg. 1). For African Americans owning land was detrimental for them, it would make them become economically independent and it seemed as though a light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately when President Andrew Johnson became
The reconstruction era for African American was a very hard time and struggle. I don’t believe that this period was a good thing to happen for African Americans, it actually did not help them …show more content…
For example the share cropping system, the whole share cropping system was to have black families rent a small portion of land and in return for a portion of their crops. This portion of their crops was to be given to their white landowner at the end of the each year. While all this was happening freed African Americans choose to follow William T. Sherman, who was a general from the union army troops. In 1865 Sherman issued a temporary plan granting that each freed slave family receives 40 acres of land. Also the Union army gave away some of their mules to the former slaves because they were no longer need for battle. Hints the term 40 acres and a mule came from. Most former slaves strove to exercise their liberty to the fullest, as they sought to reunite families and claim their independence from their former masters as much as possible. While white vigilantes resorted to murder, lynching, and other acts of brutality to force blacks to limit their horizons. African American saw this as an opportunity to have their own and to be somewhat untied from their former white slave owners (pg. 1). For African Americans owning land was detrimental for them, it would make them become economically independent and it seemed as though a light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately when President Andrew Johnson became