How Was Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Successful

Reconstruction was partially successful due to Johnson’s reconstruction plan, the southern industry took quite a long fall but got back up because of reconstruction governments, and agriculture in the south changed very slightly in the absence of slavery. After the war, the word reconstruction was given a new meaning. Instead of it meaning: an act of reconstructing it became the process of readmitting the southern states (that seceded) back into the union. Reconstruction was partly successful. All the southern states were readmitted into the union eventually, but not everybody was happy. Several problems arose in the government. During the beginning of reconstruction in the south Lincoln was responsible for just about all of it. Then Lincoln was killed and his vice president became the leader of the United States Of America, Andrew Johnson. Johnson’s reconstruction plan was similar to Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan. Johnson’s reconstruction plan worked, but the nation was still divided when former

Until sharecropping came along (not far after), tons of former slaves practiced sharecropping. Sharecropping is when landowners provide tools, supplies, land, and the workers would provide the work the labor. Just like before when they were slaves, except this time they were getting paid-- not really. They would only get a little piece of farmland with the crops. The money that the got when selling the crops was so little all it was used for was just providing food and clothing for their families, never enough to save up for a farm. So in the beginning of reconstruction, there was a crop failure because there were slaves, they all left. Once the slaves realized that it was difficult to find work most started sharecropping. So in conclusion reconstruction was semi-successful, the southern industry took a hit, but recovered, and southern agriculture barely