Essay On Reconstruction After The Civil War
The integrity of the United States has been ensured as an indivisible country by the victory of the North in the American Civil War, but in the course of the conflict much had been destroyed. The second war aim, the abolition of slavery was achieved only partially.
Reconstruction
The victory over the Confederate States (Southern) had the most productive agricultural region of the country economically ruined and destroyed its rich culture. The legal abolition of slavery also meant no equality of former slaves. Immediately after the war tried legislative powers in the south to prevent African Americans from the election. They were afraid, as former slaves would use their right to vote, and they were trying to save as much as possible from their …show more content…
1896 put the Supreme Court determined in the case Plessy against Ferguson that the constitution separate facilities and services for the two races authorizes, as long as these facilities and services are equally valid. The southern facing promptly thereafter separate - but by no means equivalent - Facilities for African-Americans. Law provided for a strict separation in public transport, theaters, sports, and even in elevators and in cemeteries. Most African Americans and many poor whites lost the right to vote because they were unable to pay the poll tax (which had been introduced in order to exclude them from participating in politics) and because it is the test of reading and spelling ability failed. Because smaller offenses accused African Americans were sentenced to forced labor and violence of mobs sometimes directed against them. Many African-Americans remained in the southern states as a result of their poverty and their ignorance sharecroppers. Although African Americans were by the law freely, lived and they were treated like …show more content…
He was enthusiastically received by the population in the Allied capitals, but the enthusiasm faded when the negotiations began in Versailles. Despite Wilson's protest, the Allies submitted to the German reparation payments and shared his devastating colonies among themselves. Wilson succeeded indeed to create the League of Nations (League of Nations), but many Americans feared that such a world organization would involve the United States in the future in another war. A group of Republican senators tied conditions at the Treaty of Versailles. They would only accept the League of Nations as long as the US Congress, would not retain the League of Nations to take control of the American forces. Britain and France had no objection, but Wilson refused to amend the contract. The President and the Congress came to no agreement. The United States consequently neither ratified the Treaty of Versailles, nor do they have joined the League of
Reconstruction
The victory over the Confederate States (Southern) had the most productive agricultural region of the country economically ruined and destroyed its rich culture. The legal abolition of slavery also meant no equality of former slaves. Immediately after the war tried legislative powers in the south to prevent African Americans from the election. They were afraid, as former slaves would use their right to vote, and they were trying to save as much as possible from their …show more content…
1896 put the Supreme Court determined in the case Plessy against Ferguson that the constitution separate facilities and services for the two races authorizes, as long as these facilities and services are equally valid. The southern facing promptly thereafter separate - but by no means equivalent - Facilities for African-Americans. Law provided for a strict separation in public transport, theaters, sports, and even in elevators and in cemeteries. Most African Americans and many poor whites lost the right to vote because they were unable to pay the poll tax (which had been introduced in order to exclude them from participating in politics) and because it is the test of reading and spelling ability failed. Because smaller offenses accused African Americans were sentenced to forced labor and violence of mobs sometimes directed against them. Many African-Americans remained in the southern states as a result of their poverty and their ignorance sharecroppers. Although African Americans were by the law freely, lived and they were treated like …show more content…
He was enthusiastically received by the population in the Allied capitals, but the enthusiasm faded when the negotiations began in Versailles. Despite Wilson's protest, the Allies submitted to the German reparation payments and shared his devastating colonies among themselves. Wilson succeeded indeed to create the League of Nations (League of Nations), but many Americans feared that such a world organization would involve the United States in the future in another war. A group of Republican senators tied conditions at the Treaty of Versailles. They would only accept the League of Nations as long as the US Congress, would not retain the League of Nations to take control of the American forces. Britain and France had no objection, but Wilson refused to amend the contract. The President and the Congress came to no agreement. The United States consequently neither ratified the Treaty of Versailles, nor do they have joined the League of