How Did Reconstruction Successful

Reconstruction was a success because of what it did to get to where America is now. Without reconstruction, the USA could still be partially divided and there would still be Confederate beliefs, there are still some of that today but it's completely unnormalized and looked down on. Important parts of Reconstruction the Union did to get where we are today are the amendments, our economic steps, and how they progressed America's education system. Although Reconstruction was a success there were a few mistakes, those being sharecropping and the compromise of eighteen seventy-seven. Sharecropping was seen to be similar to slavery, just as a job which later ended in 1940, and the compromise of eighteen seventy-seven was a corrupt election that allowed Rutherford Hayes to be elected if the
The fifteenth amendment, passed by Congress in 1870, extended voting rights to only black men. These three amendments were big steps towards bringing together the Union and South. One thing that changed the most economically during reconstruction was southern cropping. Slavery had ended, so some southerners moved to the city for jobs. They were able to do this because of all the money the Union put into bringing railroads and factories to the south. One alternate way some southerners got around slave labor was free labor. Instead of owning a slave they would house unpaid workers, this later became illegal in nineteen forty. The way the education system changed during reconstruction was because there were over ninety HBCU schools open. These are exclusive African American schools that are now known as segregation. They have changed over time so more races can attend their university. Another way education changed was through the making of public schools. Schools were going to now be funded by taxes, this was made because the south needed free