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A timeline of the key event of Reconstruction.

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Was Reconstruction A Success or Failure?

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Was Reconstruction A Success or Failure?

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Some people think Reconstruction was a failure because it wasted money. I think it was a success though because it helped get rid of slavery. It gave us new laws and supported equality to all male citizens. It gave us the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment which helped abolish slavery and freed former slaves. Reconstruction also gave former slaves and poor whites their own land and tools. I know we would have gotten rid of slavery even without Reconstruction, and that we wasted a lot of money on something people didn't even want to do. But Reconstruction still helped push us to abolish slavery. In conclusion I think Reconstruction was a success, but not as successful as it should have been.

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Our first African-American Senator. The fifteenth amendment made this possible because it allows any male citizen to vote no matter what race.

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Military Reconstruction Act divided the South into 5 military zones. The military would now be in charge of enforcing the fourteenth amendment and equality. Rich Southerners protested against it because they weren't used to treating the former slaves as equals.

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The Freedman's Bureau was an agency that supplied food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education to former slaves and poor whites in the South.