What Are The Goals Of Reconstruction
Part One.
Reconstruction
During the American Civil War, the Radical Republicans were a branch of the Republican party that believed in same political rights for blacks and whites and that Confederate leaders should be punished for their crimes. Their main goals were “voting rights for African American men as well as the redistribution of southern plantation lands to free slaves.” Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican, said “We must “revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners.” He proposed a “forty acres and a mule” plan where the federal government will provide forty acres of land to the freed people giving them a source of economic independence. Another way the Radical Republicans provided for the freed people was the implementing of the Fourteenth Amendment which states that all people born or naturalized in the United States will have due process and equal protection under the laws. This allowed for permanent protection for the freed people. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed the rebels’ rights to vote and seek office. Reconstruction failed because in the early 1870, growing economic problems grew strong as the white …show more content…
Business owners tried to take advantage of hiring the female workers with lower wages that males. As Agnes Nestor documented, the women had to pay to power her machine and buy their own needles. Their work was within the domestic sphere. She described the businesses’ micro-control over everything. If the women stopped for a minute during work, payments were reduced. They even controlled who the workers ate with and whether they were allowed to sing. They were only allowed to sing “because the foreman could see that the rhythm kept us going at high speed” Because of the loss of control in the workplaces, female workers started to join unions to better be able to fight for their rights and to settle their grievances with business
Reconstruction
During the American Civil War, the Radical Republicans were a branch of the Republican party that believed in same political rights for blacks and whites and that Confederate leaders should be punished for their crimes. Their main goals were “voting rights for African American men as well as the redistribution of southern plantation lands to free slaves.” Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican, said “We must “revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners.” He proposed a “forty acres and a mule” plan where the federal government will provide forty acres of land to the freed people giving them a source of economic independence. Another way the Radical Republicans provided for the freed people was the implementing of the Fourteenth Amendment which states that all people born or naturalized in the United States will have due process and equal protection under the laws. This allowed for permanent protection for the freed people. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed the rebels’ rights to vote and seek office. Reconstruction failed because in the early 1870, growing economic problems grew strong as the white …show more content…
Business owners tried to take advantage of hiring the female workers with lower wages that males. As Agnes Nestor documented, the women had to pay to power her machine and buy their own needles. Their work was within the domestic sphere. She described the businesses’ micro-control over everything. If the women stopped for a minute during work, payments were reduced. They even controlled who the workers ate with and whether they were allowed to sing. They were only allowed to sing “because the foreman could see that the rhythm kept us going at high speed” Because of the loss of control in the workplaces, female workers started to join unions to better be able to fight for their rights and to settle their grievances with business