How Was Reconstruction Successful
Successful Reconstruction?
As a whole, America has gone through many political changes and revolutionary movements. As history takes its course, though, most all of these “revolutionary movements” came to an end. One movement was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a period in time when America was consisting of many leaders, goals and accomplishments. Eventually, it did come to an end, the result has been both a failure and a success. Reconstruction of the South, though, was definitely a failure in many ways. When Reconstruction began, America had just done fighting the Civil War. Basically, this time period was mainly just that. It was a time of “putting together the pieces” as some people have said. It was a point where America attempted to become an “up and running country once more”.
The South, in many ways, was not very successful during Reconstruction. Southern whites were often uncooperative with new the legislation passed by blacks and the population was almost four …show more content…
These people were the Republican Party, and they called themselves Radicals. The Radical Republicans had two main objectives. First, they were angry at the South, blaming them for the Civil War that had just ended, they wanted to punish them and make them pay, and they wanted to help all of the near four million slaves who were now free men after the war. There was nothing to keep the southerners from taking advantage of the freed men, and this is exactly what they did. Knowing that the South couldn’t directly disobey the law, they set up their own laws, or “black codes”, that put hard restrictions on blacks. Even though laws were in place , they basically disobeyed them.
In conclusion, was Reconstruction a success for the South? No. It was not a success. I believe it was just a mess. Many things were happening and there was “change” it wasn’t very good
As a whole, America has gone through many political changes and revolutionary movements. As history takes its course, though, most all of these “revolutionary movements” came to an end. One movement was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a period in time when America was consisting of many leaders, goals and accomplishments. Eventually, it did come to an end, the result has been both a failure and a success. Reconstruction of the South, though, was definitely a failure in many ways. When Reconstruction began, America had just done fighting the Civil War. Basically, this time period was mainly just that. It was a time of “putting together the pieces” as some people have said. It was a point where America attempted to become an “up and running country once more”.
The South, in many ways, was not very successful during Reconstruction. Southern whites were often uncooperative with new the legislation passed by blacks and the population was almost four …show more content…
These people were the Republican Party, and they called themselves Radicals. The Radical Republicans had two main objectives. First, they were angry at the South, blaming them for the Civil War that had just ended, they wanted to punish them and make them pay, and they wanted to help all of the near four million slaves who were now free men after the war. There was nothing to keep the southerners from taking advantage of the freed men, and this is exactly what they did. Knowing that the South couldn’t directly disobey the law, they set up their own laws, or “black codes”, that put hard restrictions on blacks. Even though laws were in place , they basically disobeyed them.
In conclusion, was Reconstruction a success for the South? No. It was not a success. I believe it was just a mess. Many things were happening and there was “change” it wasn’t very good