Why We Shouldn T Reconstruction End
Letter to Congress
To my honorable congressman,
It has come to my attention that the question of whether Reconstruction should or shouldn’t end has risen. I have carefully contemplated and I have come to a conclusion that Reconstruction shouldn’t end. Reconstruction shouldn’t end because the rebellious southern states didn’t fulfil all of the requirements of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, they didn’t implement, in good faith, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and finally, because of violence, military oversight is still needed.
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 generally states that with black suffrage and until the 14th amendment is ratified by rebellious southern states that there would be military troops in 5 different districts. The southern states did eventually allow them to hold government jobs and during reconstruction African Americans held many official governmentjobs that they wouldn’t have been able to do before. All …show more content…
The 13th amendment abolishes slavery; southern states abolished slavery but had sharecropping which trapped African Americans, and some whites, in a loop that was like slavery. The 14th amendment says that all people born or naturalized in the United States they would be guaranteed due process and equal protection under the law; southern states had segregation which fully contradicts the 14th amendment because it denied blacks equal protection. The 15th amendment said that citizens could vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; southern states found multiple ways to get around the 15th amendment. They have literacy test which made it harder because most former slaves couldn’t read or write, fees, gender, and whether or not your grandfather could vote which restricts almost all former slaves. Southern states have tried to find alternatives to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment to make it harder to incorporate former
To my honorable congressman,
It has come to my attention that the question of whether Reconstruction should or shouldn’t end has risen. I have carefully contemplated and I have come to a conclusion that Reconstruction shouldn’t end. Reconstruction shouldn’t end because the rebellious southern states didn’t fulfil all of the requirements of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, they didn’t implement, in good faith, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and finally, because of violence, military oversight is still needed.
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 generally states that with black suffrage and until the 14th amendment is ratified by rebellious southern states that there would be military troops in 5 different districts. The southern states did eventually allow them to hold government jobs and during reconstruction African Americans held many official governmentjobs that they wouldn’t have been able to do before. All …show more content…
The 13th amendment abolishes slavery; southern states abolished slavery but had sharecropping which trapped African Americans, and some whites, in a loop that was like slavery. The 14th amendment says that all people born or naturalized in the United States they would be guaranteed due process and equal protection under the law; southern states had segregation which fully contradicts the 14th amendment because it denied blacks equal protection. The 15th amendment said that citizens could vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; southern states found multiple ways to get around the 15th amendment. They have literacy test which made it harder because most former slaves couldn’t read or write, fees, gender, and whether or not your grandfather could vote which restricts almost all former slaves. Southern states have tried to find alternatives to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment to make it harder to incorporate former