Explain Why Reconstruction Is Sometimes Called The Second American Revolution

Reconstruction is sometimes called the “Second American Revolution”. Using examples from both the article and the textbook, to what extent do you feel the experience of African-Americans at this time makes it an appropriate title for this period in American history.

The “Second American Revolution” or the time of the broken promise, the promise of freedom, forty acres and a mule. The Reconstruction was a time period in America where the separation of the North and the South seemed to intensify, at time where many leaders, struggles with the clean-up from the civil war. The Reconstruction Era and the Civil War in comparison hold and even plain as to how detrimental to America they were. We look back at the precursors to the Civil War, the south was upset with the country as they knew it so much so that they decided that the best thing for them to do would be to separate from the union. Meanwhile the North saw their separation as the ultimate act of treason, and for what? What could ultimately be the catalyst to make a nation once whole separate and war within itself. I would say that the same thing that won the war started the war. That being the slaves. You would think by hearing that last statement that if the war was won because of the slaves that their spoils would be rich, their status uplifted. Though that would be a happy end to the
With the Emancipation Proclamation came the promise of freedom to previously slaved African Americans in southern states, and the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves all over the union. What this ultimately resulted in was the realization of what the northern African Americans had endured for years leading. They would come to learn that it was just as hard being a free man, living in an ever growing hostile white promoting land. How do you be free as a black man when all you knew is how to be bound? And for whites how do you accept the people you once owned as equals or close to