Prompt: What were the long-term economic, social, and political effects of Reconstruction? The United States was challenged with many issues after the Civil War like crop lien work contracts, segregation, and unresolved problems with the seceded states. This period was called Reconstruction.…
What impact did federal Reconstruction policy have on the former Confederacy and on ex-Confederates? The federal Reconstruction policy, in some places, took away the rights of the ex-Confederates to hold office and even vote. This made the ex-confederates feel powerless. It made them angry and some even formed…
The reasons for this were because there was extreme racism and President Grant ignored the rebuilding for a period of time. Though the KKK and South corruption played a big part of the ending, Reconstruction wouldn’t have ended if it weren’t for the North, because they were the ones still moving it along in the first place with their hope. The North had started Reconstruction, so it makes sense that the North had to have finished it, and it did. One of the many causes of the North ending Reconstruction was because people lost hope. The fact that the blacks were to be free and the nation would start new and forget about the past was all too good to be true. The nation had to find their balance between the Southerners and Northerners where they could have a good…
After the Civil War, the southern soldiers were going back to devastated cities, destroyed railroads, and many cities were burned to the ground as a result of Sherman’s march from sea to sea. After the Civil War occurred, the slaves were given freedom from their owners, and slavery was banned. That attempt at reconstruction was not a complete fail, but it took a little bit of time for America to give social and economic equality to slaves. There were many attempts made by several different presidents, but not all seemed to work due to the South’s stubbornness. The failure of reconstruction later did not bring social and economic equality to former slaves in the south because of things like the Jim Crow laws and the South’s strong disproval of the outcome of the war.…
called Reconstruction. During Reconstruction (also called Radical Reconstruction), the South was in economic, political, and social trouble. In 1865 Congress established the…
As the Civil War came to a close, Southern life showed extreme changes. Economically, the South had definetly been defeated. The South 's wrecked economy helped grow the North 's and made way for laws to protect former slaves. This defeat influenced the…
Reconstruction: Failure or Success? Reconstruction occurred immediately after the Civil War. It was enforced by the Union to help readmit southern states back into the Union, and to enforce equal rights for newly freed slaves. For freed slaves, Reconstruction was both a success and failure. However, for the southern economy, Reconstruction turned out to be an immense failure.…
What had formerly been ruled by Democratic hardliners was now governed by equally radical Republicans intent on changing the ways of the South. One of the primary goals of Reconstruction was to integrate blacks into Southern society and readmit the states that seceded, but only after blacks had won full political and civil equality (Wormser, “Reconstruction”). This, however, did not align with the idea that most Southern leaders at the time held, and there was an obvious backlash to the Republican…
United States struggled through many issues during a period called The Reconstruction. With problems that came after the Civil war like segregation and unresolved problems with the seceded states. The Reconstruction era brought about repair from the slavery abolishment. The Civil War also caused great deal of pain throughout the states themselves having brought a big deal of hatred towards the North and the South because of their different opinions on views of people. They refused to, “work together,” making it harder to Reconstruct then it should have been. Economics, social, and political impacts forced the Reconstruction to become a bigger deal then it actually should have been, and these are some points on how it turned out like this.…
After the Civil War was over, the South went into Reconstruction. This was the time…
US reconstruction was a success for former slaves, and a failure for former slave owners, other whites in the South, Northerners, Republicans and Democrats.…
Reconstruction was imperative in the history of the United States. Right after the civil war, the nation and its former enemy were now at peace and ready to become one again. It allowed the south to rejoin the nation under certain stipulations. As an alternative the south rejoined but adopted things like the black codes to continue persecuting the former slaves. Angering the north the south was put under military rule to enforce said stipulations agreed upon to rejoin the nation. While the north industrialized and prospered the south clung on to agriculture and slavery with all their might. Tensions were running high once again and the United States was on the brink of war all over again.…
While the Norths economy expanded and boomed, the Souths economy was shattered and devastated. The Souths economy was in ruins and they lost hundreds of thousands of young men. The South relied heavily on slave labor and would use them to do most of their work. The Civil War wrecked most of the Souths industry and farmland. On the other hand, the war’s effect on the Northern economy was much more positive. Much more jobs were available and more goods were always being made. People in the North came up with many developments in technology which was ultimately used to make weapons and improve transportation. While the economy boomed their was also a negative side. The wages couldn’t match up with the prices and the peoples standard of living worsen. Often times when white workers would go on strike, they would be replaced by women, blacks, and other immigrants who would agree to work for lower prices. As a result of the economy doing so well, the Congress decided to use this as an advantage. To cover all the war debt, the Congress started to collect income tax which was a tax used to take a percentage of an individuals…
After the civil war had ended, devastation had hit the South as the Southerners tried to rebuild what was broken or lost in the war. As reconstruction began to take place, the citizens of the South had begun to start work in industrial businesses. The Industries gained thousands of newly working civilians. Though the Southerners worked extremely hard for their pay, they received very low wages which did not provide much tax revenue. Without tax funding, it was very difficult for a Southern Industrial worker to get a proper education. Since the income was low, workers saved their money and did not buy many goods, which resulted in a restrain in Southern production of goods. The low pay made sure the Southerners kept working and producing goods.…
This week’s reading by Jeffry Frieden highlighted the hurried economic reconstruction that occurred after World War II. Due to the total devastation of factories and also the workforces of Europe, the world’s economies plummeted to a point that seemed unable to be saved. Fortunately, the United States began preparing for this recession as soon as the war began; anticipating an economic fallout, the United States called upon economic experts such as Frederic Keynes who attempted to brainstorm solutions to this inevitable issue. Thus came the creation of the Bretton Woods Institutes. The passing of these international agreements established the international monetary fund, the general agreement on tariffs and trade, and also the international bank for reconstruction and development, with the latter two eventually becoming the World Trade Organization and the World Bank, respectively. These three institutes ensured international and domestic economic stability and also regulated international trade just enough so that countries could trade freely while still abiding by regulations that instilled equal trade opportunities. With the Bretton Woods Institutes, our world was able to recover from a potential economic downfall and eventually develop into a fully-connected global economy.…