Failures of The Reconstruction Era Essay

The 20th century was an era of innovation, warfare, and communication. For America, this is an age of industrialization, entertainment, and reform. The country had just moved from the Gilded Age with its monopolies to the Progressive Era with all its reforms to the Roaring Twenties, a time of fun and consumerism. Despite this, America was also going through a period of internal racism, disenfranchisement, and hatred especially towards African Americans. This hatred catalyzed the Civil Rights…

Mario Moran Title: Why was the Reconstruction era a failure and does its effects still last today? Investigation Reconstruction is known as the time after the Civil War when America needed to untie and rebuild itself. The reconstruction period lasted from 1863-1877 but some of its effects are still seen in today’s society. These effects show how the reconstruction was a failure instead of a success, especially in the aspects of economic and social value. One of the main investigations will be…

Reconstruction, an era meant to provide African Americans with equal rights, has completed its course. To this day, blacks, whites, and others that are citizens in the US are considered to be equal but, some people oppose. However, Reconstruction is a failure, for it left many problems unsolved, including as segregation and the infringement on voting for blacks. These problems were eventually solved through the Civil Rights Movement, which contained many African Americans leading it. Even with…

North used a military tactic called “total war” which damaged much of the South. Now African Americans are free from slavery and the people want the South to be punished. This era after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction era. During this time the United States worked to unify the country once again. Reconstruction was necessary in order for there to be a system to reintroduce states into the Union and a plan to rebuild the South. Without a plan, there would have been chaos, but people…

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…

Initially during Reconstruction there was an effort to improve the areas of: land, voting, education, labor, and the legal system. These efforts would be considered failures because later on Southerner whites would attempt to limit African American’s civil rights and liberties through the use of violence and the passing of laws such as the Black…

Failure to Repair The Civil War was one of the greatest tragedies that America has ever faced. Because of this war, the nation suffered enormously and the economy went into a downward spiral. Reconstruction was an effort to ‘repair’ the nation after the Civil War when leaders began to try to step up and restore the crippled country. Its objective was the restore the North and South, politically, socially and economically and to allow the South to return to the union. President Lincoln wanted to…

and it declared the freedom of slaves in the United States. The release of this document was just the start of the post-civil war era and led to many factors that contributed to racism in America not only politically but economically and socially as well. The beginning of this post-civil war era marked what is now known as the reconstruction era. The reconstruction era took place between 1865 and 1877. There was a lot of work to be done in the South to repair and restore the damages that…

Reconstruction after the Civil War was heavily depended on the use of Federal power. Many southern whites did not adjust well to being an equal to an African American, and in turn went on to create laws that restricted their newly gained rights. Reconstruction after the Civil War was a partial success because African Americans did gain some rights; but, it was a failure after the Federal Government decreased its hold on the southern states. African Americans gained the right to vote, be legally…

After the Civil War, African Americans were supposed to be free and treated equal, but many people, especially in the south, still showed animosity towards them and many still saw African Americans as inferior. There were laws such as the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that kept them segregated from White Americans and many African Americans still struggled to find jobs and positions of power. Almost immediately after the Civil War, Southern states who were fighting against the black’s rights,…