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Was Reconstruction a Success or a Failure

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Was Reconstruction a Success or a Failure

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Reconstruction was a failure. Even though it made life better for African Americans, after the military left the South things went almost back to the way to it was before the Civil War. If an African American wanted to leave the city that he lived in he had to ask a white man. They couldnt even own their own land.

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He was our 16th president, the one who ended slavery and started Reconstruction. He was our president from March 1861 to April 1865. He was assassinated when he was at a show at the Peterson House in Washington D.C.
1809-1865

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The election of our next president was decided. The military is leaving the south. And our era of Reconstruction is over.

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I still cannot own my land, but I have someone who is willing to share theirs with me. But I can only stay if I give him some of my cut of the money, it kind of sucks. I have to do all this work and I don´t even get all the money.

I did a lot of work today. You wouldnt beleive how many seeds I planted. Its hard work, a lot of hard work. I wish I had enough money for a muel.
African American Sharecropper

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The picture below depicts the first African American Senator, Hiram Revels, and his representatives. The 15th amendment made it possible for African American men to vote, without that these people would not have been in congress. Hiram Revels would not have been able to get into Congress without the 15th amendment.

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The Radical Republicans are now fully in charge of congress, and they have passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867. This divided up the south into five military districts, each district was placed under military leadership and new elections were held with voting only allowed by Congress approved voters. Each state was required to ratify the 13th and the 14th amendment.

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Are you a freed slave? Do you want a job, an education, food, and clothing? Then the Freedmen´s Bureau can help you!