Reconstruction

The slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du B

America went through many political changes throughout their lifetime. Leaders have come and gone, all of them having different objectives and plans for the future. As history takes its course,most all of these “revolutionary movements” come to an end. One such movement was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period in America consisting of many leaders, goals and accomplishments. Though, like all things in life, it did come to an end, the resulting outcome has been labeled both a success and a failure

The period after the Civil War was called Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time when people tried to “put back the pieces” from the destruction of the Civil War. This was an attempt to make America back into a full running country. Although America right now is a full running country, The attempt at making America into a full running country during reconstruction was not an easy task.

Some famous people that were involved were Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford Hayes, Ulysses Grant, Jefferson Davis and many more. When Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Which made all slaves free. Rutherford Hayes was the 19th president of the United States. When he was elected Democrats price for allowing Hayes to become president was a commitment from Republicans to abandon Reconstruction. Ulysses Grant served as commander in chief during the Civil War, leading the North to victory. Grant pursued the Ku Klux Klan and disabled the organization in the 1920’s. Jefferson Davis and his brother were set aside for the exclusive settlement of freed slaves called the “Negro Paradise”. The “Negro Paradise” became a remarkable model of what might have been in Reconstruction.

The Reconstruction started in 1865 when union soldiers occupied huge areas of the south and fought for their land.Abraham Lincoln started planning for the Reconstruction during the Civil War.At the end of May 1865, President Andrew Jackson announced his plans for Reconstruction.Abraham Lincoln wanted to bring back the nation as quickly as he can.By 1877 the whites tried to make violence.African Americans wanted economic and social equality that had been long denied to them since the Civil War.They gave them the equality and the Civil War ended.

Abraham Lincoln setup reconstruction in Tennessee,Arkansas,and Louisiana during the war.With the compromise,the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks’ rights in the south.In 1877,Hayes withdrew the last ferderal troops from the south and the bayonet backed Republican goverments collapsed thereby ending reconstruction.

Reconstruction happened because of the Civil War.Also of Andrew Johnson started reconstruction when the civil war ended everyone started to do the same thing in the east