Challenges Of Reconstruction

It was very difficult for white southerners to accept the equal civil liberties of blacks and let go of their hate and anger against them. The social challenges from the Civil War continued well into the Reconstruction. It was just years before that war ripped through the battle grounds of southern states. Unfortunately, violence was no stranger to southerners whose past aggressions ran high because of personal loss and a failed rebellion. The Civil Rights Amendments were put in place to protect citizens but local law enforcement and white southern citizens were not complying with these regulations. They were also not adhering to the unalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence. Native Americans also were no strangers to discrimination under government policies. Now that the country was unified, westward expansion began to grow. The only thing standing in the way of American dominance and policy were thousands of Native Americans in the Great Plains. During the Reconstruction, they were not even considered citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment gave blacks citizenship specifically excluding Native Americans. These tribes were forced to remain on reservations where their societies were demolished. Means of livelihood ran dry when white pioneers foraged local buffalo herds close to extinction.
Five years after the Civil War Amendments were ratified, Congress passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1875. It led by the radical republican leaders, Charles Summer in the Senate, and Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives. The federal proposition guaranteed that each person in the United States was authorized to the absolute and equal enjoyments of civic accommodations and faculties disregarding race or skin color. Federal electives in Congress were progressing the United States government to integrate recently Freedmen into society