During Military Reconstruction, blacks enjoyed the right to vote freely under the protection of the Northern takeover. However, it was not to last, the reconstruction fervor began to fade and . Sharecropping, a form of farming remarkably similar to serfdom which had started soon after the Civil War, was spreading like wildfire and pulling many freedmen back into labor, possibly even worse than before because now they had to pay for their own food etc. Groups Like the Ku Klux Klan, started in 1865, began to gain more and more popularity as the military control faded. They used scare tactics like lynchings to keep Freedmen from voting. Other tactics to try and keep Freedmen from the poles were subjecting them to ‘literary tests’ and saying that if your grandfather hadn 't been able to vote, neither could you. Slave codes were soon replaced by ‘Black Codes’, and so the south went through another social revolution, but this time they went backwards(Documents I & …show more content…
The war was fought on premises of keeping a nation whole. It soon also became about freeing the slaves completely, a revolutionary concept. Reconstruction tried to make them equal to whites, and only sort of worked. In the end all these revolutions went almost full-circle and we see the repercussions to this day. Even still, this revolution is moving forwards, and we strive towards knowing and accepting how, even though we may seem different, we are all beautifully diverse and amazingly similar in both minds and our