Explain The Goals Of Reconstruction

The main goal of Reconstruction was to reunite the Union without causing major conflicts with the South so America could become whole again. Another goal was to have minorities get civil rights in America and not treated less than others. I believe that some of these goals were not fully met but should have been. In the Civil Rights view, goals that minorities had were not met, and the goals Lincoln had were also not met. Eventually, long-term accomplishments came out of this part of American history, but it took years to accomplish the rights minorities deserved. It all started with the end of the war. Lincoln had a plan to reunite the South with the Union in an orderly fashion, called the 10 percent plan. The plan was made to have 10% of the 1860 voting population to be welcomed back into the Union with a loyalty oath, and have them follow the 13th amendment. This plan mainly came into action only in Louisiana but was quickly abandoned after Lincoln was assassinated. After the assassination, Congress took over with a plan of their own. They decided to have 50% of
People believe this because the north had white and black people fighting for more rights, while the southern men were fighting for their oligarchies to come back. May rights were granted to the minorities, but it took years for the north to accomplish this and voting wasn't granted for black’s until the 14th and 15th amendments. After all of this arguing and fighting, the South still found a way to overcome minorities by using the Black Codes. The Black Codes were restrictive laws that significantly reduced the rights of black men so the South could still use freedmen as a cheap workforce. The codes tried to take the rights the freedmen had just fought for away from them, for the South to gain the upper hand. This angered minorities and the north so they kept on