from using their rights in every way possible and barely any of the perpetrators were punished. Reconstruction was more of a failure for Freedmen because it failed to protect former slaves and created unjust laws. Although the new amendments were effective for some time‚ overall throughout time people began to find ways to reconstruct white supremacy and undo what they stood for. The government was so corrupt that many unjust laws were passed. Southern state
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The Outcomes of The Reconstruction for African Americans As much as being free from slavery was a time of joy for African Americans‚ being truly free from slavery was not to happen for many years to come. African Americans faced many social‚ political‚ and economic obstacles after Reconstruction. The years after Reconstruction continued to foster great tension between blacks and whites. This New South was new in name only because blacks were still not afforded the same rights as whites
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Reconstruction Reconstruction started in 1865‚ its purpose‚ to rebuild and reunite the south after the war. The results of reconstruction is that it failed. People were not seeing results fast enough‚ and thought that going back to how it was before would bring back the stability. The people who are majorly affected by reconstruction were the blacks. They were looked down upon as less than‚ this cause them to be excluded from new industries. Jim Crow laws‚ the laws separating the blacks from the
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difference between a. and a. Radical reconstruction aims to address social‚ political‚ and economic equality through legislative efforts. For example‚ socially they tried to address it by offering food and housing to slaves and providing better education for them to get a better life. Politically‚ the 14th Amendment helped them get equal rights and were protected under the law‚ while the 15th Amendment gave the right for colored people to vote. Economically there was a sharecropping system that made
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How successful was the New Deal? To solve the economic problems created by the Great Depression of the 1930s‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a New Deal. The aim was to relieve many economic hardships and give Americans faith in the democratic system. The idea of a New Deal was admired by some people and rejected by others. In this essay I will evaluate the successes and the failures of the New Deal: Firstly‚ Roosevelt?s most important step was to prevent banks from collapsing from all American
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War may have settled some significant national problems‚ but it created many more. Yes‚ slavery was abolished‚ secession had been refuted‚ and the supremacy of the national government confirmed. But the cost of Union victory—in lost lives‚ destroyed property and sectional bitterness—was staggering‚ and created huge new problems and tasks. Perhaps the most challenging task facing our exhausted nation was the future status of the four million newly freed slaves. After the death of President Lincoln
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The Reconstruction Era was the years following the Civil War which lasted from 1865 through 1877. During this period‚ the Confederate states were allowed back into the Union and the South was in the process of being rebuilt after the devastation caused by the conflict. After the Civil War‚ African Americans were facing a new world. They were finally allowed rights they never had before: however‚ could the federal government have done more? However‚ they really couldn’t have. At the time‚ the federal
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Reconstruction’s Failure It was clear to people in the late 1800s that the Civil War caused many national problems along with problems within the union. However‚ the Civil War assuaged many problems for the country. For example‚ slavery was abolished‚ the supremacy of the national government had been confirmed‚ and secession had been proved false. Some people may believe that the main reason why the congress’ reconstruction efforts to ensure equal rights to the freedmen failed was because virtually no
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1. There were four different plans for Reconstruction‚ but all had different approaches on how to recontruct the South. Abraham Lincoln’s plan was very lenient‚ and pardoned all Confederates who swore allegiance to the Union‚ except for high ranking officials. When 10% of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union‚ the state would be readmitted into the Union. Andrew Jackson’s plan was similar to Lincoln’s plan‚ except it excluded high-ranking Confederates and wealthy Southern landowners
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After the Civil War‚ the Southern United States was in ruins from all the battles that had taken place. Damage had been done‚ and repairs had to be made. This repairing process was dubbed “Reconstruction‚” and it managed to last for 12 years along with having attained a diverse amount of political opinions regarding the concept. Overall‚ Reconstruction was a failure because of the South’s lack of obedience towards the North’s plan and the North giving up on the process too soon‚ when the correct
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