Why did Congress’ Reconstruction efforts to ensure equal rights for the freedmen fail?
The evolving differences in the political parties, and tensions growing between both in the 1850’s-1860’s. The issue was with slavery in the south and if they should be allowed in the new territories out west. All republicans wanted them to stay out of the west because they said that all that territory is for the white man to explore and use for their own activities. All of these issues and more led to the civil war, during the civil war Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation which stated that all the slaves in states that they were fighting against were freedmen now. After the union victory of the war, we had the issue of reconstruction …show more content…
But there were ongoing issues with the political parties that were uprising and had troubles about everything, the southerners who opposed blacks were taking radical options to oppose them, and the limits of African Americans are becoming even more limited than they were before. All these things eventually led up to the failing of congress and their ways of helping the freedmen.
Hayes-Tilden disputed election was an election in 1876 between the democrat Tilden and the republican Hayes. Hayes won the election, but this was not much help to reconstruction as a whole. Hayes had to accept the compromise of 1877, this was the end of reconstruction as a whole. The information that the map shows was aimed at the audience of people who wanted to see the outcome of the 1876 election.
The following headlines are from the front page of a New York Time storie article. These headlines show that the democratic party is gaining power and votes very fast in which will limit the rights of African Americans in the long in. The democratic party was fighting with the republicans to see what we should do with the freedmen and now is sparking more controversy. The main purpose of these headlines was to show whatever saw the paper that Congress was being taken over and overwhelmed by the democratic
The evolving differences in the political parties, and tensions growing between both in the 1850’s-1860’s. The issue was with slavery in the south and if they should be allowed in the new territories out west. All republicans wanted them to stay out of the west because they said that all that territory is for the white man to explore and use for their own activities. All of these issues and more led to the civil war, during the civil war Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation which stated that all the slaves in states that they were fighting against were freedmen now. After the union victory of the war, we had the issue of reconstruction …show more content…
But there were ongoing issues with the political parties that were uprising and had troubles about everything, the southerners who opposed blacks were taking radical options to oppose them, and the limits of African Americans are becoming even more limited than they were before. All these things eventually led up to the failing of congress and their ways of helping the freedmen.
Hayes-Tilden disputed election was an election in 1876 between the democrat Tilden and the republican Hayes. Hayes won the election, but this was not much help to reconstruction as a whole. Hayes had to accept the compromise of 1877, this was the end of reconstruction as a whole. The information that the map shows was aimed at the audience of people who wanted to see the outcome of the 1876 election.
The following headlines are from the front page of a New York Time storie article. These headlines show that the democratic party is gaining power and votes very fast in which will limit the rights of African Americans in the long in. The democratic party was fighting with the republicans to see what we should do with the freedmen and now is sparking more controversy. The main purpose of these headlines was to show whatever saw the paper that Congress was being taken over and overwhelmed by the democratic