Why Did Reconstruction Establish Itself After The Civil War?
How could America rebuild itself after the civil war? Post civil war, America was bruised and bloodied from the warring factions. Ultimately the Union won, but how would it incorporate the defeated South back into the Union? The best strategy that the Northern government could collectively pass was the Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan focused on punishing the south by helping freedmen and establishing their (limited) rights, preventing confederate soldiers from voting, and having almost total reign over former confederate state government. However, the plan of reconstruction would be so degraded over time that most of the progress made for arican americans would be reversed. Overall the reconstruction plan failed, the reasons behind these failures are numerous but the biggest ones are: the lose of Republicans in government control, the rise of groups who targeted blacks and physically and civilly, and finally the general racism of both Northern and Southern states had a large role in the liberties of freedmen being passed or not. Reconstruction has started out strong and had it continued, we could have had a much different America, but now we can only
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These failures can be attributed to: the lose of Republican control in government, the organization of people attacking blacks civilly and physically, and finally, the overall racism of the era. Reconstruction could have become much more effective on a multitude of levels that would have progressed our society decades ahead of its time. However, the past is over and done with and we must work to make sure none of these injustices to minorities are reflected in modern day society. Equality of opportunity has almost become the motto of modern day United States. Keeping and enforcing this equality will not appease everyone but it is for the sake of fairness and improvement in our
These failures can be attributed to: the lose of Republican control in government, the organization of people attacking blacks civilly and physically, and finally, the overall racism of the era. Reconstruction could have become much more effective on a multitude of levels that would have progressed our society decades ahead of its time. However, the past is over and done with and we must work to make sure none of these injustices to minorities are reflected in modern day society. Equality of opportunity has almost become the motto of modern day United States. Keeping and enforcing this equality will not appease everyone but it is for the sake of fairness and improvement in our