African American Reconstruction Vs Radical Reconstruction
Reconstruction
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 gave approximately 4 million slaves their freedom, but the rebuilding of the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) made a new set of significant challenges known. Under President Andrew Johnson’s administration in 1865 and 1866, new legislatures in southern states passed definitive “black codes” that controlled the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. The North was furious over these codes that support diminished for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the most radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks obtained an expression in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress.
President Abraham Lincoln, who arranged the physical, economical, and political rehabilitation for four years of war with an additional two hundred years of racism in the United States of America, led the Reconstruction. The intentions of Reconstruction were to revitalize the union and negotiate with the Southern states that departed before and during the war. In order for Lincoln to rebuild our …show more content…
The Klu Klux Klan was made in 1865 to get white privilege back. Poverty caused a rise in high taxes and conclusively led to more poverty in the Southern states. The war also led to a “black code” which didn’t give blacks all the rights that whites had. Blacks fought for civil laws and basic human rights but they still had restrictions, whites, and blacks had separate bathrooms, water fountains, schools, beaches, and many different things. Another failure was the amount of poverty the South was in due to the war. It left Southerners, whites, and blacks, jobless, which led them to be homeless and without supplies or food to feed their
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 gave approximately 4 million slaves their freedom, but the rebuilding of the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) made a new set of significant challenges known. Under President Andrew Johnson’s administration in 1865 and 1866, new legislatures in southern states passed definitive “black codes” that controlled the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. The North was furious over these codes that support diminished for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the most radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks obtained an expression in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress.
President Abraham Lincoln, who arranged the physical, economical, and political rehabilitation for four years of war with an additional two hundred years of racism in the United States of America, led the Reconstruction. The intentions of Reconstruction were to revitalize the union and negotiate with the Southern states that departed before and during the war. In order for Lincoln to rebuild our …show more content…
The Klu Klux Klan was made in 1865 to get white privilege back. Poverty caused a rise in high taxes and conclusively led to more poverty in the Southern states. The war also led to a “black code” which didn’t give blacks all the rights that whites had. Blacks fought for civil laws and basic human rights but they still had restrictions, whites, and blacks had separate bathrooms, water fountains, schools, beaches, and many different things. Another failure was the amount of poverty the South was in due to the war. It left Southerners, whites, and blacks, jobless, which led them to be homeless and without supplies or food to feed their