Killing of the Reconstruction Right after the Civil War, America was rebuilding itself very quickly, but after the election of 1876, they fell really hard down the stairs. On the bright side, 1876 it was the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and there was a presidential election.(Background Essay paragraph 1) The election was between two candidates. The Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes and the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden. This close election put America on edge and some people spoke about a second Civil War. The candidates came up with a compromise to not let that happen. This compromise is known as the Compromise of 1877.(Background Essay paragraph 4) If Hayes got the presidency, then he would …show more content…
Many were terrified by the KKK. One incident was when a State Senator from Caswell, by the name of John W. Stephens, was killed.(Doc A paragraph 1) John was stabbed five to six times, then hung up in the Grand Jury room on a hook. John was a Republican Senator, who was for the freedom of slaves. There was also the incident of Abram Colby, a former slave who was elected to the Georgia State Legislator while Reconstruction was going on.(Doc B) He was beaten by the KKK on October 29, 1869. The KKK beat Colby because he voted on a Radical Ticket. Colby said, “Do you ever think you will ever vote another ****** Radical Ticket? If there was an election tomorrow, I would vote the Radical Ticket.”(Doc B paragraph 1) Colby was beaten for hours with straps and sticks with buckles at the end of them. Two days before that Colby was offered money by the KKK to not vote. These were first-class men. “One was a lawyer, one a doctor, and some farmers…”(Doc B paragraph 3) The KKK were first class men so they were probably in the government corrupting it so that the president was not focused on Reconstruction and on the illegal activities in the government.(Doc B paragraph 3/Doc …show more content…
The whites wanted former slaves to be slaves again instead of politicians.(Doc D) The whites didn’t want the African Americans to become politicians, they wanted them to just be free and work in the field for wages. Many of the South Senators were still wanting the slaves to work in their fields. Many of the Southern Resistance would attack the former slaves and hurt them with sticks and buckles. “They set in and whipped me a thousand licks more….. Some are first class men in our town.” (Doc B paragraph 3). Many of the Southern states would only elect white-only governments. (Background Essay paragraph 4) Many of the Southern states turned away Reconstruction efforts, except three. The Compromise of 1877 was formed because of the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was very tight. The Compromise granted Hayes the presidency if he would move all Federal troops out of the South.(Background Essay, paragraph
KKK was targeting certain type of people. In Document A it says the type of people the KKK was targeting were congressmen, radical republicans, carpetbaggers,and scalawags. KKK was targeting them because those people mostly liked reconstruction.In Document B it talks about the KKK was threatining and half killing a former slave named Abram Colby. KKK was threatening him because he was voting for the radical ticket. KKK didn't want him to vote for that because that would give black people rights, and they want slaves to reunite. In Document B Colby says, "On the 29th of October 1869, [the Klansmen] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead (Colby paragraph 1)." Colby was asked, "What is the character of those men who were engaged in whipping you (Colby paragraph 2)?" South killed reconstruction because KKK was really angry and mad that there was reconstruction. KKK was mad about reconstruction because now slaves that have been freed have same and equal rights. KKK wanted slaves and didn't want to do things
An example of the KKK using violence was “John W. Stephens, State Senator from Caswell, is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux in the Grand Jury room of the Courthouse.” This was making a big impact on Reconstruction because the KKK was killing anybody that supported Reconstruction. Another piece of evidence of the KKK killing reconstruction was, “[the Klansmen] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead. They said to me, “Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?” “They said I had voted for Grant and had carried the Negroes against them. About two days before they whipped me they offered me $5,000 to go with them and they said they would pay me $2,500 in cash if I would let another man to go the legislature in my place.” This negatively impacted reconstruction because the KKK were killing and bribing anybody who voted the Radical Ticket. Overall, there’s plenty of reasons the KKK put a negative impact on the Reconstruction of the
After the Union victory in the Civil War, the South was still bitter and needed vast societal changes that matched those in the North. Reconstruction efforts were made to to make the regions more similar socially, politically, and economically; because despite the fact that they were on nation, the two societies were very different. There were still unresolved issues in regards to the status of former slaves and what system of labor should replace slavery. After the Union’s victory in the Civil War, reform efforts were made during the Reconstruction era to reunite the North and South and make ideas in the South more similar to those in the North; but this failed because of the South’s preconcieved ideas towards race.
It ended too soon to complete the transformation of the South. The cause was forfeited not by Republicans, who welcomed the African-American votes, but to the elite North who had concluded that the formal end of slavery was all the freed man needed and their unpreparedness for the ex-slaves to participate in the Southern commonwealth was evident. Racism, severe economic depression, an exhausted North and troubled South, and a campaign of organized violence toward the freed man, overturned Reconstruction. The North withdrew the last of the federal troops with the passing of The Compromise of 1877.
The south and the north made numerous compromises to create a great nation. The first indirect compromise was when the constitution didn’t mention slavery in the constitution, they left that for the states to deal with. After years after when the congress decide to stop the slave trade in 1808, they gave the south time to adjust to this but they new that by the time the slave trade died line was over the slave would have reproduces and they would have more slaves. Third compromise gave the south more power. They had notice that they had less seats in the house of representative. States with the most slaves, for instance Virginia and Maryland, were get out number in the house of representative, so the compromised to have the slave counted as part of the population. They got three counts for every five slaves. This helped balance the house of representative.
The United States was divided into two divergent sides fighting for control even before 1860. These conflicts never ended up reaching the battlefield, but the free states and slave states were in a battle for representation in Congress. Both sides wanted to control the balance of states in order to gain more authority in Congress. The Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 were attempts to prevent the growing conflict but only delayed the inevitable. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and other southern states soon followed. By the time that Lincoln was inaugurated in 1860, seven states parted from the Union and were eventually joined by four more. The South seceded because they assumed that they had the constitutional right to do so. South Carolina seceded because they believed the North would gain enough power in the central government to abolish slavery entirely in the United States. Secession was their last choice in order to maintain their power and lifestyle. The Civil War led to the Emancipation Proclamation and abolishment of slavery, but this ...
Reconstruction failed because of the North’s and South’s inability to come together on political, economic, and cultural issues during the rebuilding process in the post-war years. Though the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments abolished slavery and permitted rights for African Americans in the South, the establishment of such laws as the Black Codes by Southern State Governments inhibited African American’s freedom. Among regulating their right to vote, marry, and own property, the codes affected African American’s ability to earn jobs, which eliminated the black workforce, so it did not pose a threat of competing with white individuals who were seeking jobs. Economic progression in the South proved to be a failure during Reconstruction, due to the inability of the two sides’ coming together to an agreement on how the South should rebuild. Industrialization in the South only progressed as a stipulation from the Compromise of 1877, in which the Federal Government agreed to take the steps to help implement the
Known as one of the most disputed presidential elections in history, the Election of 1876 stood out as a controversial election between the two candidates Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor from Ohio, and the Democrat Governor of New York, Samuel B Tilden. The disputed election caused an uproar between the two parties with danger looming that there would be no president on Inauguration day. The Compromise of 1877 was a wise adjustment to avoid serious sectional conflict erupting between the North and the South, bringing peace to the Union.’
The south was in economic and social chaos after its defeat in the war. 1865-1877 was a time period of reconstructing the south, however, it left an everlasting impression that kept the south behind for years to come. The political apprehension the south felt was due to the fact that there was no more authority and the new states had to deal with the northern states. The question was how the newly reelected Lincoln was going to bring these states back to the Union.
The South did not want to lose slavery and wanted future territories to have slavery. Compromise is impossible to achieve. Going back to the quote, "The 1850's was a time of attempted compromise when compromise was no longer possible. " During the 1850's compromise was attempted by both the North and South and failed. It failed because both sides wanted different things, and this made compromise impossible.
Between the period of 1820-1861 there was a number of political compromises done in order reduce the sectional tension between the North and the South. While each of the compromises created helped the issue that the country was facing at that time, they did not help overall. The compromises were only a temporary fix to the country’s problem of sectionalism. Therefore, while political compromises were effective in reducing the tension between the North and the South, it did not help in preventing the civil war. The North and the South had a vast amount of political differences, one of the major ones was slavery.
The north made a compromise which was a wrong decision and was the start to something worse that was what to come. Also the corruption of the government in the north caused the reconstruction to fall apart. (Background Essay paragraph 1) “1876 was an exciting year for America” “So it is great irony of history that the election of 1876 officially crushed the american dream.” The Compromise of 1877 was a compromise that gave both sides what they assumed they wanted. (Background Essay, Paragraph 4) The Compromise was introduced because of the presidential election. The north wanted there president and the south wanted theirs. The Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes against the Democratic Candidate Samuel J. Tilden. So the north wanted to make a compromise and they wanted to give the north and the south what they wanted. The north got their president and the south got the union troops out of the south. (Background Essay Paragraph 5) When Hayes took union troops from the south he was ending the
As a new president was on the horizon, Republicans had Rutherford B. Hayes run for president, while Democrats chose Samuel J. Tilden. The campaigns did not get horribly nasty, which showed a bit of progress, but still dirty laundry was aired and fingers were pointed. Despite all of this, both parties came to an agreement, which helped Hayes become president. He promised to remove the last federal troops from the south and let the Republican governments there diminish. In return the Democrats would accept the Reconstruction amendments, accept Hayes, and stop their opposition with Republicans in the South. I believe it was a great compromise and a smart move because things were already way out of hand. Now, civil rights were not granted in society and the US would have a long way to go before they were truly reformed, but things were better and the Civil War seemed to be truly
The Civil War was at most one of the darkest hours in United States history. Bloodshed and loss quaked the land of our forefathers in a way we could not imagine. In the wake of the battles, the Union forces found new hope in their victories and came out on top in the victory of the war. In the hope to reconstruct the United States Abraham Lincoln proceeded with the new idea of reconstruction. The main idea was to give the freed slaves more rights and try to condone for the sins of the past and present. This was a short-lived initial plan, as the hopes and plans changed when Andrew Johnson took to presidency. His views of reconstruction conflicted towards the reconstruction, and the plan soon was updated to fit the new president’s beliefs. The
The Republicans were losing their political clout. By agreeing to what has become known as the Compromise of 1877, the Republicans effectively abandoned the people they had fought so long to free. This was because this compromise between Democrats and Republicans effectively repealed the constitutional strides, which had been made thus far toward offering the black population of the U.S. equality.3