Reconstruction: Time Period Of Rebuilding Economy And Society

RECONSTRUCTION By: nicole alexandria

Reconstruction was a time period of rebuilding economy and society. The South had needed to rebuild their economy and society because of the civil war. Many people disagreed with the idea because people thought that they did not need this and that they should live in ruins. Reconstruction occurred in 1867 many people felt devastated because they did not have adult males to help around. This time period was for people to get back together after the war. For example the South needed a lot of rebuilding because they had most of their battles in the South and the farms and their towns got destroyed. (www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/recstruction/activism/sf_rights.html)

Andrew Johnson was made the president after Lincoln had got assassinated on April 14, 1865. Andrew Johnson had no intention of helping the African Americans he wanted to punish the slaveholders in the South. He also stated that only whites who had swore on their loyalty and have been pardoned would be allowed to vote. Jackson Andrews opposed to giving the
White people who lived in the South had to swear in order to vote so basically the white people got their right to vote kind of taken away. The Fourteenth Amendment granted full citizenship to all individuals that was born in the United States. Some African Americans in the US was born in the US they soon became full citizen. Another right that was given was that African Americans were allowed to go to school and learn how to read and