Reconstruction was a failure because most of the southern region rejected all forms of equality and construction while the colored was wanting to have a right to their own freedom and land. Looking back at it you can compare and contrast the similarities and differences of how the southern population treated its people and the northern population on how their people were treated talking about color of course. During the time of reconstruction not everyone had the same idea of moving forward as a country but instead to try to find ways to reestablish the laws of more southern ways of life. Only together as a whole they can move forward but until that is put into action nothing will go smooth and steady. The question is asked multiple times throughout history with the question of what is freedom? Fredrick Douglas in his speech “What the Black Man Wants” says “what is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment…” (Doc 2). Do the people of color really receive this so called “freedom” when they are still being held back from society because of simple color. Finding liberty among the words written on these documents and laws wasn’t easy for people of colored skin. The black society shouldn’t have to have the label of being a slave but instead give the right to be free. Following up with Bailey Wyat a former slave who wasn’t as educated but had the same idea of being free. In Speech by Bayley Wyat he says, “We has a right to the land where we are located” (Doc 6).…
When the Civil War was finally over in the spring of 1865, political leaders wrestled with how to help former slaves make the transition from bondage to citizenship. It means the reconstruction should enable freed slaves to control their labor, reunite with their family members, gain education for their children, enjoy full participation in political life, and create their own community organizations and social life. The Radical Republicans followed southern society model by granting freed…
Throughout the years many things have happened to shape how our society sees things. Also how technology has changed not only in improvements but also for every aspect of human life. It is crazy how many major events have changed the world mentally and physically. Many of the bad situations we have dealt with come from someone who was raised a certain way with a certain opinion and will not change for the life of themselves. What is sad, is the fact that the things that started many of our now…
The years between 1860 and 1870 presented the people of the United States and their politicians with many social and constitutional dilemmas. These challenges have been escalating through years. The Civil War and other historical events would bring the United States to the forefront of a drastic transformation. This would have lasting implications on not only those who lived through the time period, but also those who would live in the future, revolutionary America. The social and…
What were the different approaches to the Reconstruction of the Confederate states? In 1863, President Lincoln set forth a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which allowed the reunification of the rebellious Confederates to the Union if a small portion (10 percent) of them pledged their commitment and loyalty to the Union and more importantly the constitution. Once Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency and adopted similar plans to Lincoln.…
Union was presented with the problem of reincorporating the southern states back into the Union, a process known to historians as Reconstruction. With the goal in mind of creating a Republican presence in the south based on a Free Labor ideology, the Republican Party was only moderately successful, and their eventual failure resulted in a Democratic south as well as southern traditions, such as white supremacy, being retained. Nearing Union victory, President Abraham Lincoln proposed a solution…
were given. Presidential Reconstruction was left up to Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination. His plan for reconstruction included “pardons and restored property rights, except in slaves, to southerners who swore an oath of allegiance to the Union and the Constitution” (Goldfield et. al. 362). However, those who were important in the Confederacy and had a large amount of taxable property were not granted this same thing. Instead, they had to write a petition to the president. This…
then did not enforce them fully. America today is still dealing with the aftermath of the feud between the north and the south and Reconstruction. Racial, political and social economic problems plague our country, and some of them might have been eliminated had Congress and the President made more compromises. Reconstruction was about the former Confederacy being reincorporated into the United States and freed slaves receiving citizenship. President Lincoln was the first to begin this task.…
After four long, hard years and many lives lost, the United States and the Confederate States of America ended the Civil War. After the war divided the country, it was up to the people of America to bring the South back into the Union and make sure that nothing this bad happened again. The way this was done was through the Reconstruction period. This was the idea of the North, with beginning hopes to reconstruct the Union to its former glory. However, after the abolition of slavery, the Union…
South wished to stick to agriculture, as they had for decades. On top of that, the issue regarding slavery was still not resolved in any shape or form. The period following the Civil War was called the Reconstruction Era and it was filled with clashing ideas on how to unify the country again. Reconstruction mostly, but not entirely, failed to bring justice and social and economic equality to freed blacks. Reconstruction did not completely disregard the lives of black citizens because Lincoln…