Why Did The South Destroy Reconstruction

“When is Daddy coming home, Mommy?” the little girl asked. “Not soon honey, not ever,” Mother answered. Many children were asking this question after the Civil War. Most family’s brothers and fathers hadn’t survived the war. Almost every man that was in the household over the age of 11 was drafted. If they survived the war, there was a big chance they would die from a wound or a disease. Did the North or the South destroy the Reconstruction? The Reconstruction was the attempt to rebuild the South after the Civil War. The North killed the Reconstruction because they were racist, their focus shifted from the Reconstruction and the North didn’t believe that African-Americans were fit for everyday jobs.
The Reconstruction took place from 1876-1877. …show more content…
A pro-Grant and pro-freedmen newspaper once wrote: “long enough for the black to have forgotten something of his condition as a slave…” (Richardson 517). This shows that people in the North were still referring to African-Americans as “slaves.” This is also coming from the pro-Grant and pro-freedmen newspaper, so this is as good as it gets. Another way that the North was racist is that they were “weary of the ‘Negro Question’ and ‘sick of carpet-bag’ government…” (Danzer 515). The Northerners were tired of wondering what they would do with the African-Americans. The Northerners claimed to be in favor of African-American rights, but they were just as bad as the Southerners. The cover of Harper’s Weekly shows two African-Americans in a court house. (Northern Artist's Portrayal of the South Carolina State Legislature during the Reconstruction 517). Harper’s Weekly depicted black politicians in the South savage-like and …show more content…
“Blacks need a period of probation and instruction” (Richardson 517). This statement from the Boston Evening Transcript shows that Northerners don’t think that African Americans are civilized enough to have jobs in society. “A period...long enough for the black to have forgotten something of his condition…” (Richardson 517). Northerners believe that African-Americans had forgotten how to act and behave in public. “Learned much of the true method of gaining honorable subsistence and of performing duties of any position to which he might aspire” (Richardson 517). This sentence suggests that Northerners believe that African-Americans need to learn the way of being a freemen before being able to get jobs and have a family. With these statements Northerners believed that African-Americans weren’t fit to have the same lifestyles of