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After the war, the economy was struggling in America and after the Depression of 1873 the economy just kept getting worse. The Depression hurt the economy so badly that  it "crushed the nation’s already suffering laboring class and destroyed whatever remaining idealism northerners had about Reconstruction" (American Yawp). The Government thought the struggling economy was much more important than the reconstruction and focused more on the economy.  Reconstruction in the American Yawp wrote “Republicans and Democrats responded to economic uncertainty by retreating from Reconstruction.” The struggling Economy is one of the main reasons that Reconstruction failed because their were not enough resources to help the reconstruction and the economy and the economy was more important.

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While the Reconstruction was designed to help rebuild and attempt to make everyone happy following the war, it resulted in actually the opposite. As if the overwhelming hatred in America had not already been present regarding slaves as well as free black people and the white people (many slave owners) oppressing them, the Civil War broke apart the states even more politically. During and after Reconstruction, Northerners and Southerners came up with mocking nicknames for eachother (scalawags and carpetbaggers) which, while not seeming like a huge deal, only solidified that divide between citizens of the same country. Additionally, the Reconstruction was when we saw the rise of hate crimes against black people, such as the organization the Ku Klux Klan. There was far too much hatred between people and the Reconstruction did not fix any of those issues and if not just caused them to inflate more, leading it to fail.

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What does this tell us about the government.

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What does this tell us about the government.

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Governments fail to solve certain problems because there is always a bigger problem to solve first. Like with the reconstruction, the Government focused more on the Economy because it was a bigger problem.

Another reason that the Government fails to address problems because they are scared of backlash from the country. People in government don't want to try and fix or address controversial topics out of fear of not being re-elected because of backlash from the country.

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The Reconstruction failed due to the many economical struggles unresolved as well as the escalated hatred between groups, socially divided based on both race and the origin (Northern vs Southern) of Americans.

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Why did the Reconstruction fail?

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The Northerners and Southerners remained divided, then more than ever. They created mocking titles for each other, such as "scalawags" for Southerners who moved North and "carpetbaggers" for Northerners that migrated South. On top of this, they gained reputations amongst each other and both still held prejudice against the opposing group.

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The reconstruction allowed for black men to be able to vote as well as hold office for the first time. More and more African Americans showed interest in politics. It also allowed for the first Black Senator, Hiram Revels and allowed for 16 African Americans to be elected to Congress.

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During the reconstruction period, former slaves of all ages seeked an education. Schools were made and a college was formed by African Americans. "By 1877,
more than 600,000 African Americans were
enrolled in elementary schools." (Textbook 388)

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The successes and failures of reconstruction

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Driven by anger of select white people over the newly-appointed rights of African Americans, came the infamous terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan. They inflicted harm on black civilians to make a sort of example of them that they were not happy they had rights. While it has definitely died down, the KKK still exists and practices in America today.

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provided protection of the voting rights of African Americans and enhanced the power of the Fifteenth Amendment at a federal level

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allowed all people to vote no matter " race, color, or  previous condition of servitude"

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abolished governments formerly established in the Confederate states and instead divided the South into 5 military districts and set standards/regulations for the readmission into the Union

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allowed all people who were naturalized or born in US to be citizen. Stated that if a state were to stop any males from voting they would lose a percentage of their congressional seats. It also barred a lot of confederate leaders from holding office

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gave African Americans equal protection under the law and citizenship

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provided assistance to freed slaves in the form of education and medical aid

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6 things that actually
happened

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Lincoln's plan is the most likely to succeed because it does the best job of unifying the states and making everyone not necessarily happy but content enough.

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This was most similar to ours because they both were in favor of the slaves and allowed for rights and protections. Both our plan and the Radical Republican Congress Plan were heavily gravitating around the freed slaves.

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the reconstruction plans

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Drafted the 14th amendment
"The Fourteenth Amendment made “all persons born or naturalized in the
United States” citizens of the country." (Textbook page 379) and it also allowed for equal protection under the law and "the state can't deprive people from life, liberty and property without due process of law" (379)

Strength: slaves were given more rights and changed the view on them

Weakness: the slaves weren't directly given the right to vote

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Johnson's plan was to allow the remaining confederate states to re-enter the union if they were to leave the secession, pledge their allegiance to the union, annul the confederates debts of war, and agree with the 13th amendment.

Strength: it helped strengthen the union by allowing states to rejoin.

Weakness: failed to help slave issues like land, voting  and protection under the law.

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Lincoln's plan was called the Ten-Percent Plan. It's intention was to make the South's reintroduction to the union as easy and quick as possible. It was planned for the government to excuse all Confederates with the exception of accused criminals against war prisoners and high ranking officials. His plan, while mild, still angered people; the Radical Republicans were deeply upset by the moderacy of the plan Lincoln had curated.

Strength: helped to get things moving at a steady an unextreme rate

Weakness: angered Radical Republicans and went easy on Confederates