The African-American Experience with Reconstruction After the Civil War a country, America, genuinely had to learn how to pick up the pieces that had caused the splitting of a nation that once was united. America literally was in the need to reunite and fundamentally learned from the past to obviate homogeneous outcomes again. Although the war for all intents and purposes had been declared over the citizens of the Southern regions were stuck in their old ways. The Southern whites were endeavoring to reassert the pre-Civil war order. This then caused grief on African-American’s that mostly were still enslaved by these same Southern whites. African-American’s generally had to firmly find ways to essentially protect and expand their newly-won rights. By gathering in Alexandria, Virginia, African-American’s were able to claim a right in, which would for the most part become the best indemnification of their future with their liberation. During the 1865 – …show more content…
The citizens of the south were relentless in giving into the incipient ways and were finding ways to reassert the pre-Civil War order in an enormous and sizable voluminous ways. Ku Klux Klan, a group that was composed of Southern elite plantation owners were an immensely cause of obviating the nation from moving forward. This group of Southern whites went about breaking up key meetings and driving African-American’s away from voting at the polls in an astronomical way. After years of terror in the African-American community congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment regrading obviating any race suffrage. This imposed penalties on those who for the most part had generally wished to block this right to African-American’s after gaining this incipient liberation from the post-Civil War. African-American’s had to fight to protect and expand their newly-won