Reconstruction

             The end of the Civil War brought many changes to the United States. The
             reconstruction period changed some things, but barely had an impact on social equality
             and political dismay. The government however, started black suffrage, but it did not help
             to remake the south or to gaurntee human rights. After the civil war, many important
             With the assassination of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became president, and started
             the reconstruction of the south. Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson pardoned rebel leaders
             and gave them high ranking positions in office. While Johnson was in office, he created
             the black codes. The black codes were just revised slave codes, with the word freedman,
             taking place of the word slave. New laws were made as well, to restrict blacks, they
             include having to carry passes, observing curfews, and to give up hope of ever
             entering a desirable position. Northern congressmen weren't too pleased with Johnson's
             actions, so they decided to look into his plan a little deeper. The ending result being
             congress playing an active roll in the reconstruction of the south.
             With congress now in charge of the reconstruction, they made a few changes.
             They added the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. The fourteenth gave citizenship to
             all freedmen, and the fifteenth added in 1869 gave men the right to vote, regardless of
             race, color, or previous servitude. They also added the reconstruction act of 1867, which
             divided the south into 5 military districts, and to join back into the union, they had to
             have congressional approval of the new state constitutions, and they had to accept the
             Fourteenth Amendment. Though faced with strict rules to rejoin the union, many
             southerners resisted the reconstruction. Some prevented from freeing their slaves, while
             others denied giving them land. Southerners hated the "carpetbaggers," which was the
             slang term they used for northerners s...

More Essays:

APA     MLA     Chicago
Reconstruction. (1969, December 31). In MegaEssays.com. Retrieved 05:13, March 29, 2024, from https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/79641.html