The Reconstruction Er Success Or Success?

The Reconstruction Era refers to time after the civil war where president Abraham Lincoln 's goal was to readmit the southern state back into the United States with equality and freedom for blacks. The need for Reconstruction came about because the state of the south was abysmal after the Civil War and President Lincoln wanted to help the South and allow them to return to the United States in order to be united. Some may try to view Reconstruction as either a success or a failure, but in actuality, Reconstruction had both its successes and its failures, but in larger view can be be seen as a failure. Reconstruction had many success like Freedman 's Bureau, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Bill, and the number of black

There were over six hundred African-American politicians during this time even though they would later be forced out. Example of African-American politicians during this time would would be in January 1867, black men voted and held office for the first time through the former Confederate States and the District of Columbia and another example would be in Louisiana where 133 black men held seats in the legislature between 1868 and 189, three black men served as a lieutenant governor and one served as an acting governor for forty-three days. These are the many ways in which Reconstruction was a success, but as noted, many of these great ideas were failures in and of itself because of their lack of

Events like white vigilante violence, black codes, and the undermining of Black Civil Rights all led to Reconstruction being viewed as more of a failure than a success. White supremacist violence surged during Reconstruction, eventually destroying the Republican regimes of which black men were a part. Between 1866 and 1876, Henry Adams and his group kept a record of 694 beatings and murders of freed people in Northern Louisiana. The KKK are an example of white vigilante forming and they would have likely happened anyway, but the Federal government let it happen instead of investing more resources and stopping it. The KKK took control of the South by fear because they instituted lynching, night rides, and threats that made the blacks fear them and the whites look at them as "good cops." Black codes also contributed to Reconstruction being viewed as a failure. Black codes were similar to slave codes and in 1866 they were passed by the former Confederate states and they were intended to coerce the labor of black men, women, and children through vagrancy and apprenticeship laws. These laws wanted to try to restrict African-American 's freedom and I time them to work for low