Reconstruction

On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ended, the Confederates gave up their fight against the Union; thus beginning the reconstruction period in America. Much of the South was devastated over the loss of the Confederacy and they had nothing to rally behind or hope for. In 1866, Edward Pollard first coined the term, “The Lost Cause”, which helped many people who originated in the South cope with life after the Civil War and keep their faith belonging to the South. The “Lost Cause” left a glaring…

The period of time following the Civil War, referred to as reconstruction, introduced momentous shifts in America and instituted a new and highly significant set of challenges. In 1864, after the Union victory that ended the war, slaves were freed under president Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. While Lincoln did not technically make emancipation one of his stated war goals, his objective to preserve the Union was accompanied informally by his desire to free the slaves. Approximately four…

Confederacy and destroyed everything that they could lay their hands on. In the end after the last show as fired, the south was mortally wounded and the southern men limped back their plantations and farms defeated and without purpose. The process of Reconstruction was a novel idea but it had no fail safe and thus the blacks were left out in the cold without any real plan of action for their livelihood. The Freedman’s Bureau was created right after the Civil War ended to assist the newly…

Thompson's view, a historian who studies the New South. Thompson saw the Redeemers as honest men who's only fault was that they focused too much upon maintaining low taxes. Thompson depicted the Redeemers in a favorable light despite his view on Reconstruction itself. (Hackney, 192,…

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personal rights to property, but in reality the government only demanded proper civility among the people it served. When properly examined we will be able to understand the true reality; of how both white and freed Americans struggled during the Reconstruction era, how white culture differed from Native values, and then finally the industrialization of America during the late nineteenth century. The Union’s approach to the Civil War crippled crops of…

The Struggle to for Equality With the aide of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, the end of the civil war in 1865, the addition of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, African Americans in the South, just like their peers in the North, found themselves as newly freed people. Many dreams of striking it rich and becoming wealthy business owners were now a possibility for a once enslaved population. African Americans could do as they wanted freely with no fears…

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over the Republican Party present during the era of Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan itself was racially motivated, using violence and aggression to regulate who could and who couldn’t hold positions of office. The Klan was a result of a political control issue between itself and members of the Republican Party which included a vast majority of newly freed slaves. Within the Republican Party. Within “The Ku Klux Klan: A Study in Reconstruction Politics and Propaganda” (1962), Otto Olsen…

towards slavery." Written by W.E.B. Du Bois, This quote originally referred to three events that took place in the mid to late 1800s. The events were the end of the Civil War, wherein the slave population was freed, the brief period of “black reconstruction”, and finally the regression brought on by significant racial disparities such as a lack of political and economic representation. This quote is significant because it verbalized the regression of the African American population, and somewhat…