Reconstruction Dbq Analysis
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth this continent… conceived in liberty… Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation… can long endure… It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us… that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.” -President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863. On 1861, the wager of the Union taking back her fellowship commenced. Eventually, after 4 years, 1865, the United States managed to remain united. With the Reconstruction Plan, states try to support each other rebuild their strength. With everyone continuing their alliance, everything was peaceful; it seems everything was back to what it was. Or was it? Did the plan, proposed
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by impactful leaders, really succeed in achieving political, economic and social equality for their nation? Incidentally, the Reconstruction Era made especially the Southern States and Freedmen devastatingly unsuccessful in politics, economic, or social equality. Without a doubt, in the political sense, the Reconstruction Era has indisputably failed to maintain the South. Although the former Confederate government and Northern government have settled their dispute, there is still quarrel dwelling in the South. An organization in the Union dubbed as the Freedmen’s Bureau, who protect former slaves and their rights, struggled to agree with white Americans. Considering Document B, it displays a commotion between white and black people who possess weapons of threat. In the middle stands an officer who stops the two mobs by facing the enraged white Americans and gesturing his hands to stop them. The title of the ancient representation is FREEDMEN’S BUREAU. Judging from the title, the officer is a member of the Freedmen’s Bureau. In clarification, the Freedmen’s Bureau attempts to stop the White Americans whenever there is a brawl. Reflecting to the Reconstruction Era, Document B demonstrates how the Reconstruction Era have faintly endeavored to achieve the Union’s politically. Furthermore, there are more confutes in the South economically. To illustrate, during the Reconstruction Era, carpetbaggers of the north settled in the south for personal gain. Knowing the aftermath of the great civil war, the South poses as an impoverished and a ruined region. Likewise in Document D, it exposes an elder resting on an enormous bag filled with weaponry with a woman carrying it. In addition, the bag is engraved as carpetbagger and the woman has the words etched on her tattered rags of clothes: South. The woman is also chained and expresses a fatigued appearance as she transport the bag on a glass-stepping road barefooted. On their flanks stand two armed soldiers who have the Northern Army attire. As well as economics, assuredly the Reconstruction Era have intensely decline social equality for former slaves, specifically in the South.
In demonstration, after the abolishment in the nation with three additional amendments, anti-freedmen deliberately searched a loophole to harass the freedmen. Forming the Ku Klux Klan and other groups, white americans killed and intimidated former slaves. In reference to Document E, the depiction manifested two men, a white southerner with a card saying white league, and K.K.K. member, holding a death skull over a family of black citizens grieving over their child’s corpse. The title of the picture speaks out: WORSE THAN SLAVERY. Considering the appellation and art, white southerners and K.K.K. contemplate eradicating and humiliating the black race. Moreover, the child is assumed as a victim of the murderers, causing grievance to African American’s social life. To summarize, because of the new amendments and the Reconstruction Era, African Americans have a difficult social life, finalizing the fact that America has unsuccessfully achieved social equality. To conclude: even with all the amendments and new laws, America has immensely abortive in obtaining successful political, economic, and social equality. As long as there is the opposition of freedmen, Freedmen’s Bureau, Carpetbaggers, K.K.K. members, and other groups, the nation would continue remaining dysfunctional. To others, learning the extent of the Reconstruction Era unsuccessfully achieving political, economic, and social equality, may help historians and others by teaching them their nation’s
mistakes.
by impactful leaders, really succeed in achieving political, economic and social equality for their nation? Incidentally, the Reconstruction Era made especially the Southern States and Freedmen devastatingly unsuccessful in politics, economic, or social equality. Without a doubt, in the political sense, the Reconstruction Era has indisputably failed to maintain the South. Although the former Confederate government and Northern government have settled their dispute, there is still quarrel dwelling in the South. An organization in the Union dubbed as the Freedmen’s Bureau, who protect former slaves and their rights, struggled to agree with white Americans. Considering Document B, it displays a commotion between white and black people who possess weapons of threat. In the middle stands an officer who stops the two mobs by facing the enraged white Americans and gesturing his hands to stop them. The title of the ancient representation is FREEDMEN’S BUREAU. Judging from the title, the officer is a member of the Freedmen’s Bureau. In clarification, the Freedmen’s Bureau attempts to stop the White Americans whenever there is a brawl. Reflecting to the Reconstruction Era, Document B demonstrates how the Reconstruction Era have faintly endeavored to achieve the Union’s politically. Furthermore, there are more confutes in the South economically. To illustrate, during the Reconstruction Era, carpetbaggers of the north settled in the south for personal gain. Knowing the aftermath of the great civil war, the South poses as an impoverished and a ruined region. Likewise in Document D, it exposes an elder resting on an enormous bag filled with weaponry with a woman carrying it. In addition, the bag is engraved as carpetbagger and the woman has the words etched on her tattered rags of clothes: South. The woman is also chained and expresses a fatigued appearance as she transport the bag on a glass-stepping road barefooted. On their flanks stand two armed soldiers who have the Northern Army attire. As well as economics, assuredly the Reconstruction Era have intensely decline social equality for former slaves, specifically in the South.
In demonstration, after the abolishment in the nation with three additional amendments, anti-freedmen deliberately searched a loophole to harass the freedmen. Forming the Ku Klux Klan and other groups, white americans killed and intimidated former slaves. In reference to Document E, the depiction manifested two men, a white southerner with a card saying white league, and K.K.K. member, holding a death skull over a family of black citizens grieving over their child’s corpse. The title of the picture speaks out: WORSE THAN SLAVERY. Considering the appellation and art, white southerners and K.K.K. contemplate eradicating and humiliating the black race. Moreover, the child is assumed as a victim of the murderers, causing grievance to African American’s social life. To summarize, because of the new amendments and the Reconstruction Era, African Americans have a difficult social life, finalizing the fact that America has unsuccessfully achieved social equality. To conclude: even with all the amendments and new laws, America has immensely abortive in obtaining successful political, economic, and social equality. As long as there is the opposition of freedmen, Freedmen’s Bureau, Carpetbaggers, K.K.K. members, and other groups, the nation would continue remaining dysfunctional. To others, learning the extent of the Reconstruction Era unsuccessfully achieving political, economic, and social equality, may help historians and others by teaching them their nation’s
mistakes.