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Reconstruction Essay Throughout history, there have been many forms of discrimination, based on gender, nationality, religion, age, parental status, sexuality, disability, race, among many others. For as long as discrimination has existed, there have been people who have abnegated its morality, and who have actively fought against it. As one might expect, such individuals have envisaged many different means of combatting this bigotry, and one of the concepts that those individuals have repeatedly utilized has been the idea that using the government to pass laws against the virulence of discrimination. This, however, has not proven to be efficacious. Laws can be circumvented in numerous ways, and, because of this, no real progress has been …show more content…

One reason why laws are not the most essential factors in the war against discrimination is that they tend not to be as effective as desired. A prime example of this was the response to reconstruction succeeding the Civil War. While the federal government was taking steps to create laws that supported equality, the South, afraid of how detrimental to their economy the …show more content…

One of the best examples of this is the 15th Amendment, which, supposedly, gave people of all races the right to vote. Despite this, African-Americans in the south were faced with many a legal barrier and found themselves unable to exercise their constitutional right. That Amendment was passed in 1870. It wasn't until 95 years later in 1965, that a Civil Rights Act was passed to overcome those legal barriers, and, finally, allow African-Americans to vote. Furthermore, that Act was only passed after mass demonstrations in support of it, showing the resistance of government toward

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In the article “The New View of Reconstruction,” Eric Foner writes about the difficult time that the United States go through the Reconstruction era. Also, discusses the different point of view or interpretation that Reconstruction era had over the years. The author Eric Foner describes the Reconstruction era as a difficult time after the Civil War. The Reconstruction was from the beginning and before 1960 as a time of exceptional debasement and control of the freedman.

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Its failure was firmly secured in 1873 when the Supreme Court began to undermine the Constitutional Amendments and the Civil Rights Act in the Slaughter-House Cases. Military and political force was used in an attempt to give slaves equal rights to the white man. However, the actions of the South had stopped that from happening. Slaves were free but they were trapped in plantation labor. They could vote but many could not.

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After the reading of the preface, chapter one, six and nine, I learned a lot about how the revolution took place in the southern society. The author who's Eric Forner, gave a lot of details about each event and important date in the revolution process. Forner, wrote the story of the slave revolution in the United States. Sumter noticed a restructuring of American social and political life so revolutionary that the very idea of reconstruction is impossible without the Civil War. The emancipation proclamation of 1863 is taken as Eric’s point of beginning, with the persuasive reasoning that it “represented a turning point in national policy as well as the character of the war.”

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During this time of Reconstruction, there were many differing viewpoints. While some

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The main goal of Reconstruction was to bring the rebel states back into the Union and to help the slaves become a part of society. These goals were achieved but it had both successes and failures. The major successes brought from the Reconstruction were: 1. The reunification of the Union: Reconstruction succeeded in bringing rebel states together. 2.

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The Revolutionary Reconstruction After America was devastated by the Civil War, several critical developments were instituted into the general idea of revolutionizing the future of America in constitutional and social aspects. In the reconstruction period of 1860-1877, several of these conflicting proposals, such as the additions of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and the essential compromises to balance governmental powers, loomed amongst the future of black citizens and the future of America. Although it is argued that these acts did not contribute long or short term benefits to the overall betterment of our developing nation, I believe that the majority of the implicated concepts provided concret reasonings to perhaps provoke the greatest

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Reconstruction had many faces during and after the Civil War. First, there was Lincoln’s plan, and then Johnson’s plan, but the Military Reconstruction Act affected the country the most. Because of the effects, this act is viewed in many ways. Some viewed it as a failure while others viewed it as a success. Many view Reconstruction as a failure, but it should be viewed as a success because the educational system was improved, colored received their basic rights, and

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Krish Mehta Dr. Noboa-Berman A History of American Democracy in Cases 2 February 2023 The Effects of Reconstruction on the Mindset of the South Reconstruction refers to the period from 1865 to 1877 in the United States, following the Civil War, when the country sought to rebuild itself and address the legal and political status of the newly freed Black population. The period was marked by the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendements to the US Constitution, laws, and acts which aimed to secure civil rights and protections for Black Americans. Although Reconstruction implemented multiple vital laws to help establish rights for African Americans, Reconstruction was unable to change the Southern majority’s opinions of discrimination, underlining

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Reconstruction Essay During the 1860’s the civil war began over the disagreement between United States citizens on the topic of slavery. Once the Union had won the war and declared slavery was abolished, the country had entered its reconstruction era. The purpose of this era was to integrate the southern states and the newly freed slaves into America and protect their new rights. Reconstruction was ultimately a failure due to making life for newly freed slaves more dangerous than it was before.

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Foner also defines Reconstruction as an incomplete revolution which aimed at enfranchising the freed slaves and creating new political rights. However, Reconstruction was not a complete success story given that it was met with lots of resistance from the former master class in the South and finally met its ugly end through racist violence, emergence of Klan and other groups of whites who dominated over the freed slaves through terrorism. Foner takes it a point to note that the inability of reconstruction to deliver equal rights left the nation with race issues that continued to reign in the civil struggles of the twentieth century (Foner, 1988). The frame of the “Second Revolution” provides detailed information on the revolutionary process of Reconstruction and the presence of the resistance voices, which emphasize that the struggle for an adequate position of African Americans remains an essential part of the American history. Thus, Reconstruction can be defined as a rather dramatic period in the US history, both from the viewpoint of social and political development of the countries.

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Sources Analysis Freedom During the Reconstruction era, the idea of freedom could have many different meanings. Everyday factors that we don't often think about today such as the color of our skin, where we were born, and whether or not we own land determined what limitations were placed on the ability to live our life to the fullest. To dig deeper into what freedom meant for different individuals during this time period, I analyzed three primary sources written by those who experienced this first hand. These included “Excerpts from The Black Codes of Mississippi” (1865), “Jourdan Anderson to his old master” (1865), and “Testimony on the Ku Klux Klan in Congressional Hearing” (1872).

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These acts all tie into the Reconstruction because it helped put this country in the decent state that it’s in, all we can do is share our opinions and hope that we have a good government that will do anything to protect all different types of people’s equal rights. Let’s just hope that we can continue to make this country better than the decent state that it’s currently

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Maceo Cardinale Kwik Reconstruction Reconstruction was the twelve years after the civil war. Those twelve years were full of readjustment fixing the ruin the United States had fallen into. The problems that had the United states in disarray were how to, rebuild the South, reunite the states, and ensure the rights and protection of the newly freed African Americans. The civil war left the South in shambles, and newly freed slaves struggled to adjust to their new freedom. Most Southerners hated reconstruction and everything else about the North.

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However, changes that were made during Reconstruction greatly impacted the lives of many African Americans. While some efforts were made to achieve a status of equality, many suffered continuous discrimination and were denied (deprived of) their basic civil

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Reflection on the Reconstruction Period The reconstruction period was a time of cause and effect. It was a time when in order to rebuild the strength of society economically, socially, and politically after a the loss of life and stability in the civil war. In the socratic seminar we discussed how the during the reconstruction period the goal was to ‘fix’ the south as in the eyes of the government, they were the cause of the problem.

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