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Reconstruction Essay

Reconstruction essay

After the North defeated the South in the Civil War, politicians faced the task of putting the divided country back together. There was great debate about how severely the former Confederate states should be punished for leaving the Union. With the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, it was up to President Andrew Johnson to try to reunite former enemies. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote. These were only the first steps, however, toward reconstructing the fragmented nation. I think that reconstruction was a bad thing at the time but great for later years.

The reason it was bad during that era was because of the white race discriminating blacks just for the color of there skin, they shouldn’t look down upon the blacks just for that they are humans just like the whites are. Segregation was another big reason that it was bad back then because blacks couldn’t even go to the same public bathroom as the whites or they couldn’t even stop and sit in a restaurant and order a meal in half of the restaurants. There was also a big social change back then also, the whites formed a clan against the blacks called the Ku Klux Klan other known as the KKK witch the whites would hang and kill African Americans for no reason just for being a different color as them.    

There was a big economical change back in those days like the industrial changes like the blacks actually got to buy land and agriculture supplies. They did stuff like sharecropping witch is a system of agriculture or agricultural production in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land or a thing called crop lean system where people finance the sharecropping system, southerners turned to the crop...