Who should we blame more for the failure of Reconstruction? by Amy Westerfield https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt Was the North or the South more responsible for ending the effort to establish rights and protections for Southern blacks after the Civil War? en-us 2018-09-25 03:59:27 UTC 2018-10-18 17:59:05 UTC hello@padlet.com The reason the North is to be blamed because they say the blacks is not good enough and they had scandals that the president didn't know enough. Document D states “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for theproper exercise of political duties" (Document D Heather). colton_farr2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227276 2018-09-26 19:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227276 taylor_coleman6 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227617 the south is to blame for the end and failure for the reconstruction of the south. the southeners had very powerfull alies whom of wich were more than happy to end a few disagreeing polititions for examble would be John .W Stephens of the Ohio congree wich was murderd in a court house for all republicans to see.(Document A). another perfect example would be the assalt on Abram Colby who was a black man running for the republican legislature they tried to bribe him for his spot then they whipped him for a good few hours and when they thought they had broke him he still fought for what he believed and he was lashed a thousand more times. (Document B) so i believe the south reall was the cause behind the failure of reconstruction they but road blocks ahead of the fight and slowed it down so when more issues came the northern goverment was getting overwhelmed and they had to focus on more than just the reconstruction.

]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227617 paul_berkey1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227686 the southerners were the ones who started by resisting, and this led to the north to get annoyed and stop seeing the benefits of reconstruction because of the trouble that the south was creating with the KKK attacking the carpetbaggers, freedmen, and anybody else who got in their way, and they also rigged elections by threatening anybody that was going to vote for republicans
(document B) ]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227686 South gabrielle_march2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227713 The reason to blame the south is that they weren’t open to change at all.Infact they would try to stop reconstruction so harshly they used violent force. Such as in document a where we see the cartoon that is clearly a threat from the kkk. Trying to stop all movement towards reconstruction using others fear.]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227713 micah_kory2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227732 The north can be blamed for going back on there word about having blacks be members of society and they forgot about reconstruction. ( Document D)]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227732 emily_warnick2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227753 They didn't believe the blacks were competent to run the government, the North was too buried in their scandals to help with reconstruction. Looking at document C's picture it shows President Grant literally buried in a barrel of scandals. Document D's picture shows exaggerated versions of blacks causing chaos in a legislature building. Both are reasons that the North is responsible for the failure of reconstruction (Documents D and C).]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227753 tori_mccary1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227815 We should blame the south for the failure of the reconstruction because they became super powerful and overtook the reconstruction when the North was busy with the Panic of 1873.
According to Doc C, President Grant states "I hope I can get to the bottom of this soon" proving hes more focused on saving himself than all the African American people ]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227815 bradleyno_slocombe2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227866 Document D was talking about how blacks are unfit for political duties and that is not fair to them cause they should be given a chance and in Document C it was showing that they did not care about the reconstruction of the South]]> 2018-09-26 19:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227866 The white Southerners showed a lot of resistance that eventually killed the reconstruction. The KKK and other groups threatened and killed supporters of the reconstruction. (Doc A) karalee_edvalson1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227901 2018-09-26 19:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227901 derek_nguyen1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227921 The South was to blame for the failure of reconstruction because how much resistance they showed, this is shown in Document A where we see what kinds of threats they were making and what kind of acts they were actually committing.]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227921 carson_ringo2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227975 With all of the scandals going on in the north relating to president grant, he was too distracted by the scandals and shifted his priority from Reconstruction, to dealing with his own issues.
DOC C

]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286227975 marylynn_haggard2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228013 The North is to blame because as pictured in document C, the government was all messed up in scandals which caused them to get distracted from the reconstruction. And as pictured in document D the Northerners started to change their minds about whether or not blacks are ready to be in office]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228013 The reason why North should be blamed is because they were thinking that the blacks weren't good enough (Document B) andy_ramirez7 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228122 2018-09-26 19:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228122 breeza_martinez1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228166 The reason to blame the North because they wouldn't let blacks run for office in order for their voice to be heard and change things they saw unfit for their community. In document D it states 'the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of 
probation and instruction' meaning that black were unfit for any political position because they still had a slave mindset.]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228166 derek_howald1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228191 The north wasn't as helpful as they could have been. I got this from doc a]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228191 micah_kory2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228201 The Ku Klux Klan started up and took out the people supporting black freedom and the right for them to vote. (Document A)]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228201 the reason the north owuld be to blame is because they changed their focus from the reconsruction to the econmic crisis. they did this because they knew the north was going to suffer more than the south would. They also wouldnt allow african americans to run for office because they felt that they were not educated enough and thought they might seek revenge for how they were treated. this is shown in both political cartoons C and D. eleanor_morgan1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228252 2018-09-26 19:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228252 jeweliann_perez2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228291 they didn't believe the blacks would be able to run the government and had too many scandals to focus on Reconstruction]]> 2018-09-26 19:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228291 The North is to blame because they started to turn against the reconstruction in document c. grace_ladoux2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228735 2018-09-26 19:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228735 derek_howald1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228741 The south caused there own problems with raging against blacks. doc b]]> 2018-09-26 19:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228741 The reason to blame South is because they showed so much resistance towards the North and that made it that the Reconstruction was a failure in the end. (Document C) andy_ramirez7 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228838 2018-09-26 19:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228838 katerina_kozelisky2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228867 There were too many scandals going on while president Grant was in office, so he got distracted, then lost focus and interest in the reconstruction. Document C]]> 2018-09-26 19:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228867 On Document B the cartoon shows how Colby is being treated, just for having the right to vote for Grant. malia_major2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228922 2018-09-26 19:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286228922 The south is to blame for the downfall of the reconstruction, mainly the ku klux Klan who disturbed all peace and made the reconstruction impossible they made it impossible for people, mainly African Americans, to vote and made lives miserable for many. Abraham Colby testified to this in a joint house and senate committee saying, ¨ On the 29th of October 1869, [the Klansmen] broke my door open, took me out ofbed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead. Theysaid to me, “Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?” I said, “Ifthere was an election tomorrow, I would vote the Radical ticket.” They set in and whippedme a thousand licks more, with sticks and straps that had buckles on the ends of them. ¨ (document B) they, the Ku Klux Klan, in my opinion were the downfall of the Reconstruction (document B nyah_miller1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229039 2018-09-26 19:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229039 jeweliann_perez2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229194 The Ku Klux Klan started and stared killing the people that supported the blacks having rights]]> 2018-09-26 19:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229194 The South killed the president to show how serious they are and how terrifying they are. They attack a black man because he was voting for a Radical and the white from the south did not like that. Colby states in Document B I said, “Ifthere was an election tomorrow, I would vote the Radical ticket.” They set in and whippedme a thousand licks more, with sticks and straps that had buckles on the ends of them. (Colby Document colton_farr2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229239 2018-09-26 19:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229239 the north was no help and they could have been huge help. gage_brooks2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229411 2018-09-26 19:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229411 emily_warnick2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229595 The south is to blame for the failure of reconstruction because the whites were corrupt. Looking at document A, Colby writes about how the KKK were trying to bribe or 🤬 others whose views were not the same. If it weren't for the KKK the South might've had a little more representation in the government (Document A).]]> 2018-09-26 19:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229595 bradleyno_slocombe2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229666 The South because the KKK were taking away the voting rights of people and threatening them to vote for who they wanted to vote for and most of the members were farmers, lawyers, and doctors]]> 2018-09-26 19:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229666 The KKK started to take stuff away from the people. grace_ladoux2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229671 in doc b]]> 2018-09-26 19:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229671 The reason you could blame the south is because they were very stubborn. They also had groups like the KKK who would terrorize people into fear, for example on document A it talks about how the KKK had killed a white caarpetbagger who was and offical and supported the reconstruction eleanor_morgan1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229742 2018-09-26 19:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229742 carson_ringo2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229935 the south is to blame for the failure of reconstruction due to the racist, white congressmen who were involved in the KKK, killing and enticing fear into anyone who would oppose them.
DOC B]]> 2018-09-26 19:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286229935 The North was too busy with other issues, they basically left the reconstruction to the south. Of course that didn't work because the South didn't want to change. The North was too self-centered, and didn't work to help equality, and even hurt it sometimes by showing their opinion that blacks were not educated enough to run for office (Doc D) karalee_edvalson1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230019 2018-09-26 19:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230019 the south is to blame because the kkk had taken the voting rights. gage_brooks2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230244 2018-09-26 19:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230244 marylynn_haggard2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230305 The south is to blame because as shown in doc. A the KKK was killing good people who supported the reconstruction, and more than likely, scaring a lot of people on to their side, and as talked about in doc. B white southerners would try and prevent anyone and everyone from voting for anything republican and would threaten and beat people who did]]> 2018-09-26 19:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230305 peter_sinclair3 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230576 As shown in Document C the north was chaotic surrounding the scandals taking place which then distracted them from reconstruction.]]> 2018-09-26 19:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230576 jaqueline_morgan2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230635  ]]> 2018-09-26 19:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230635 breeza_martinez1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230838 the south is to blame because the KKK]]> 2018-09-26 19:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286230838 katerina_kozelisky2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286231198 The south was to blame because the white southerners (KKK), resisted the reconstruction. The cartoon in document B]]> 2018-09-26 19:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286231198 breeza_martinez1_2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286231477 the South was to blame because the KKK rose up and started to 🤬 judges that were trying to help black people get rights and up on their feet to make a living as said in Document A]]> 2018-09-26 19:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286231477 peter_sinclair3 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286232276 Document D explains how uneducated the freedmen are and how ineligible they are. ]]> 2018-09-26 19:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286232276 jaqueline_morgan2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286232467 The reason that the south is to blame is because the white southerns in the ku klux klan resisted the reconstruction in the south. The ku klux klan killed the people that supported the reconstruction and black rights, This is seen in document A, where John W. Stephens is killed by the kkk and was hanged in the court house room by a hook for supporting the republican party.]]> 2018-09-26 19:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/286232467 kizzy_dodge2 https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/294532684 The south caused the reconstruction to crash and fail. There was violence in the South against all people who supported the rights of blacks and the Reconstruction was the main reason for the failure of the Reconstruction. Although the north’s choice to ignore what was going on in the south was a reason for failure along with the southern violence. ]]> 2018-10-18 17:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amy_westerfield1_2/94j0bnamozmt/wish/294532684