The Pros And Cons Of Reconstruction

Due to the Civil War, the South was not what it use to be, so in order to build the South back up, and for the South to become back in the Union, the Reconstruction was formed (Schultz, 2013).While many were not fans of the Reconstruction, there were a few positive outcomes of the Reconstruction. Because of the Reconstruction, there were a couple of new constitutional amendments develop such as the Nation’s first civil rights law as well as the abolition of slavery. (Schultz, 2013). These new Amendments included the 13th; this amendment was to abolish slavery (Carolina Public Humanities, 2017). The 14th amendment was to birth citizenship, due process and to have equal protection under the law, as well as the 15th Amendment, which was to
grant that no citizen could be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or previous conditions of servitude (Carolina Public Humanities, 2017). By these being put in place, this would change the lives of many people as well as help the South to be economically stable. The Reconstruction also helped the freemen and freewomen to become more educated, which helped them to become politically empowered. This brought on the sixteen African American being able to serve in Congress during this time, which included African Americans like Hiram Revels and Blanche K Bruce, in the U.S. Senate (Britannica, 2017).