Why Is Reconstruction Necessary
Joshua Cravy
1/18/2017
Hist 1302
Dr. Tom McKinney
Discussion 13
The Reconstruction era was the point at which the South became part of the union again after the civil war had ended. This era in history holds many key events that helped give African American’s the rites they truly deserved which is why I believe it definitely necessary. However, this was a slow process of making them completely equal to whites in a sense that they were not completely free people. In fact, they were not allowed to vote, attend public schools, unable to own farmland in certain areas, and were unable to testify against the whites. The right for the blacks to vote did not come until the 15th amendment was passed in 1870 and sense Reconstruction started in 1867 this was not viewed as an extravagant amount of time, but 3 years is long considering the fact that at the time blacks could change how the government operated and had a large say …show more content…
This era kicked off the dreams that many of the indentured slaves first had when coming to the new world (because most of the indentured slaves never got out of the slave system), an example of this would be the land that freed slaves in the south were given by the union after the land had been taken from the Confederates, this transfer of white land to blacks were reversed during 1865. The point at which a president was elected that promised to make the south that blacks were here to stay was Ulysses S. Grant, however, the South would resist and resist hard. Our book states he promised, “if elected he would enforce the laws and promote prosperity for all” (America a narrative history 10E, David Emory Shi & George Brown Tindall; page 601). Once elected however many conflicts were caused and he even accidentally forced an economic collapse in 1873, but the Reconstruction, in the end, was a success on all
1/18/2017
Hist 1302
Dr. Tom McKinney
Discussion 13
The Reconstruction era was the point at which the South became part of the union again after the civil war had ended. This era in history holds many key events that helped give African American’s the rites they truly deserved which is why I believe it definitely necessary. However, this was a slow process of making them completely equal to whites in a sense that they were not completely free people. In fact, they were not allowed to vote, attend public schools, unable to own farmland in certain areas, and were unable to testify against the whites. The right for the blacks to vote did not come until the 15th amendment was passed in 1870 and sense Reconstruction started in 1867 this was not viewed as an extravagant amount of time, but 3 years is long considering the fact that at the time blacks could change how the government operated and had a large say …show more content…
This era kicked off the dreams that many of the indentured slaves first had when coming to the new world (because most of the indentured slaves never got out of the slave system), an example of this would be the land that freed slaves in the south were given by the union after the land had been taken from the Confederates, this transfer of white land to blacks were reversed during 1865. The point at which a president was elected that promised to make the south that blacks were here to stay was Ulysses S. Grant, however, the South would resist and resist hard. Our book states he promised, “if elected he would enforce the laws and promote prosperity for all” (America a narrative history 10E, David Emory Shi & George Brown Tindall; page 601). Once elected however many conflicts were caused and he even accidentally forced an economic collapse in 1873, but the Reconstruction, in the end, was a success on all