After the Civil War there were three and a half million slaves that had nothing but there freedom. All they wanted before the war was freedom from the whites but after the slaves were freed they still had control of them. African Americans did not have any rights to anything. The government tried to give them their rights but everything they did was meet with another law against them. Lincoln had big plans for the reconstruction like the Freedmen’s Bureau but after his assassination all of progress fell apart. Reconstruction of United States by the federal law regarding African Americans was a failure by the government The reconstruction of the new south was planning to give African Americans all their legal rights so they could become U.S …show more content…
After the 14th Amendment anyone who was supposed to have the same rights as everyone but it didn’t work out that way. They found ways to keep African Americans from voting and pursuing their rights. They made all these qualification which required them to pass tests that involved reading and interpreting the constitution. Which was a problem for them because they didn’t go to school and weren’t taught how to read and write. Also did not have time to teach themselves how in behalf that they had to work long hours on a plantation or a domestic servant. So they were not even doing work on their own land. In the south, they were paid less than half of what of the northern workers would make. More or less they are still doing the same work as they were before the war. This also was required for them to own/lease land, so very few even had the chance to have their own home. All-white primary election was another way they had control because no blacks were allowed to be in office. The Democratic Party was like a club for all the higher officials. Of the black men that were eligible to vote many of them were threatened and torment if they attempted to vote also, attacked there family’s to ensure that they had no say about