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The Reconstruction was a failure. It was a failure because it did not end how Lincoln had pictured it to end. Lincoln wanted all of the states to get along and not be mad at any one state. It was also a failure because quite a few people didn't want Reconstruction to succeed.  Without the support of all citizens it could not be successful to the satisfaction of Lincoln's hopes.

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May 9th 1867. Life has been hard for me since the Civil War ended. I have no one to work on my plantation for me because my former slaves are now being paid for their work or have left  to become sharecroppers. It's really hard to find a job, and I'm losing money.  I'm thinking I may have to sell off part of my plantation to help pay my debts. Another possibility is to travel to the North to find a job to send home money.

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                           Reconstruction Timeline

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                           Reconstruction Timeline

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Newspaper article declaring that Lincoln had been shot!  Doctors did not think he would make it through the night.  This is a memorial edition of the newspaper that was printed a year after Lincoln died.

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Newspaper article declaring that Lincoln had been shot!  Doctors did not think he would make it through the night.  This is a memorial edition of the newspaper that was printed a year after Lincoln died.

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The Bureau helped newly freed slaves with everyday problems. The most recognized accomplishments of the Freedman's Bureau were in education.  Despite the good intentions, efforts, and limited success of the Bureau, medical treatment of the freedmen was severely insufficient.

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Fredric Douglass was a Politician during Reconstruction.The Fifteenth Amendment made Fredric Douglass' achievement possible. That is because the Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States."

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Each state was also required to ratify the 13th and 14th Amendments after drafting new state constitutions. This could only be done after new public officials were elected that had pledged their loyalty to the Union. They did this so each district could be placed under military control.  A lot of the ex-Confederates hated it. A lot of the freed slaves and ex-southern-Unionists approved of it because it protected them and their rights from the ex-Confederates.