How Did Reconstruction Succeed

One of the most important questions in the late 1800s is how do you rebuild after the death of the one man who held the country together through a civil war, President Lincoln, and after the decimation of Southern infrastructure; much to the dismay of the Republican party, who controlled the politics at this time, the Reconstruction failed to accomplish its chief goal of promoting equality as the country fell back into its antebellum ways. In an effort to right the wrongs of the past, Republicans strove to address the varying definitions of freedom to promote equality. These definitions include: political freedom, meaning the right to have a say in government by voting and running for offices, religious freedom, the right to an education, which
Through what was later referred to as Radical Reconstruction, the Republican party made many achievements in the promotion of civil and political equality by means of civil rights legislation, measure to protect free labor, and strived for an equal distribution of public services and resources that blacks were previously denied. While it seemed that for a time the Reconstruction was accomplishing everything it set out to do with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Reconstruction Act, Fifteenth Amendment, and an increase in blacks holding office at the local, state, and federal levels, the Reconstruction was effective overthrown by the its Southern with opposition who blamed the corruption in the Grant administration, incompetence, high taxes and black supremacy as a reason for overthrowing the system. In reality their motives were not so pure, they hated the idea of racial equality and wanted to control labor in an effort to regain their antebellum status as society’s elite. Soon they began launching their reign of terror against any Republican that was a threat to white supremacy, not discriminating by