The Role Of Reconstruction In History

I think that Reconstruction was a success because of its effects later in history. Although it had many bad things come out of it at the beginning, in the long run, it greatly helped get African-Americans rights. It also opened the South’s economy up to more industrial businesses, to gain more finances.
First of all, African-American rights were non-existent before Reconstruction. Negroes, a nicer term for African-Americans, were seen as lesser beings that didn’t deserve rights equal to Whites. But Reconstruction changed that. One of the main goals of Reconstruction was to give equal rights to all (but Native Americans). The Radical Republicans, who were a group of Republicans who wanted a stricter form of reconstruction, created the 14th, 15th, and 16th amendments. The 15th amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” This really means that all people born in the United States were given
It moved from Agriculturally based production to Industry, working together with agriculture. This proved for a better way of making money, seeing how they were making more products and selling more of a variety of things. A northerner visits the “New Industrial South” to see what has changed, and this is what he sees “The South is manufacturing a great variety of things needed in the house, on the farm, and in the shows, and already sends to the North and West several manufactured products” As the Northerner states, the South is starting to open up to new production lines and have even “joined the procession” as the Yankee