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Was Reconstruction a failure or a success

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Was Reconstruction a failure or a success

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Reconstruction was depending on who you asked was a success and a failure. If you were to ask someone like Lincoln then the answer would more than likely be yes. Since Lincolns only concern was readmitting the sates and that did happen it would be a success. For people like the Radical Republicans it would be a little bit of both because they did get African Americans the right to vote and full citizens of the United States. After Reconstruction how ever African Americans were back to being mistreated and would be a failure.

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Newspaper Article For The Compromise of 1877

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Newspaper Article For The Compromise of 1877

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Tilden falls
short of electoral victory
Samuel J. Tilden has won the popular vote, but was one vote short of grasping the electoral victory. Democrats in congress in the south made a compromise to let Republican Hayes become president if he would withdraw troops form the south. When the Republicans accepted it was one of the first things Hayes did as president.

After this happened it was pretty much the end of Reconstruction because after the military was drawn out freed slaves went right back to being treated the same before the military arrived.

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Today our 16th president Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a play by John Wilkes Booth. After being taken to the the Petersen House in Washington D.C. he bled out and died today April 15th, 1865. He lived to be 56 years old. He had only served one month into his second term of his presidency.

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Diary Entry of a Former Plantation Owner

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Diary Entry of a Former Plantation Owner

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Dear Diary,
Today was terrible all of my slaves were freed and now I cant even afford to keep the plantation running. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Dear Diary,
Today I had a great idea, I will divide the land I own and give a few freed slaves head of household a few acres and tools to farm along with seeds and take a majority of the crop when the harvest comes. I will call it sharecropping.

Dear Diary,
Today I got my first person to
invest in my sharecropping idea and so far it is working just as I planned. Today I had them sign a contract saying I would get the majority of the crop.

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African Americans did not play a role in the government until after the civil war. The people in the picture below were some of the first black senators and representatives that the United States had. The reason that these men were elected was due to the fifteenth amendment which states that no one can be denied the right to vote due to race or color. When this amendment was passed it caused the black community to become involved in voting and running for offices.

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The Military Reconstruction Act was a law that divided the South into five major military zones. The law was enacted because in the South they were not enforcing the law like they should have so the government sent the military to the South. The Southerners were not happy about this change. With this change it meant that they would have to treat the freed slaves like everyone else and that made them really mad.

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This is an image of on of the school that the Freedmen's Bureau established during its lifetime. Even tho it looks like that the Freedmen's Bureau only helped freed slaves but they actually helped poor whites as well as the freed slaves. This image shows just one of the services that the Freedmen's Bureau provided, they also provided clothing, hospitals, legal protection as well as education.