During the Reconstruction Era in 1865, many U.S Americans died during the Civil War fighting against the Confederate States of America. The number of deaths is estimated about 600,000, which left a legacy ruin for the South (Lecture notes). The Civil War might have killed over 600,000 Americans, but it also helped build many new things. The War fused the nation into a more economic and social nation by building more systems such as banks, railroads and most importantly a new society committed to industrialization (Lecture notes). It also changed slaves lives because the war destroyed slavery! This major change impacted the South negatively because ending slavery meant that the labor system and economic support structure would decrease drastically …show more content…
The Northern Conservatives are former Democrats who desire to posses the South back into the Union and Southern Conservatives did not like the idea of blacks having rights and wanted the South to go back to the way it was before blacks received freedom.Southern Conservatives did not want slaves to have any economic equality or any type of rights such as voting (Lecture notes).Southern Unionists are white people did not agree to secession and believed that slaves who are now free, to be granted political rights under their leadership( Lecture notes). Southern Freedman are former slaves who believed the same thing like Southern Unionist did, that they should be assured to equal political and economic rights(Lecture notes). Former slaves wanted the government to guaranteed them protection and increasing power over the Southern Conservatives (Lecture …show more content…
The 13th amendment basically abolished slavery and involuntary labor. Then the 14th amendment passed which “redefined citizenship and limited the power of states to deprive any individual of life, liberty or property without the process of law” (Lecture notes). Later on in 1876, Congress decided to pass a 15th amendment which granted African American males the right to vote. By passing the 15th amendment the Congress attempted to later on suppress terrorist such as Ku Klux Klan because they were becoming stronger (Lecture