Reconstruction helped with americans free slaves from slavery, but did it free america from rich men? Rich and poor americans contributed to create a new economy at the end of the 19th century. African American went north but some stayed in the south after Emancipaction. Farms, factories, and mines hire cheap workers. Big businesses and wealthy business owners affected the american economy.
Firstly, most african americans’ went to the north in order to leave segregation that was in the south. Although, some african americans stayed in the south and became sharecroppers or tenant farmers because they didn’t know what to do if they moved north. But even if slavery was illegal, some americans found that they could create the Jim Crow Laws causing segregation to be legal. African americans who lived in the north made a living by working on farms, factories, and mines.
Secondly, farms,
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With labor being so cheap big businesses were able to expand and produce ten times as much as they could before. This helped the economy by producing as much or more then the demand for the production this helped with WWII years later by out-producing the axis. This could only be done by big businesses and hard labor, and if everyone would be payed more the business could not expand and produce as much as they did.
In conclusion, cheap labor consisted of the freedmen, children, and the middle class. Labor worked in factories, farms, and mines making big businesses and wealthy business owners. Wealthy businesses payed very few dollars every week causing them to grow even bigger. The work environment cost a lot of limbs to be cut off from dangerous machines. A lot of the working class lived in tenements that were often worse than the work environment. Because big businesses growing and expanding helped satisfy the demand. We also couldn’t have one WWII without big businesses out-producing the
migrants moved North to escape from Jim Crow and the disgrace in economic opportunities in the South, going North was seen to bring about a better living for individuals and families....
Blacks have always had a challenging time since slavery. Conditions were harsh during this time period as many lived in extreme poverty. The South offered little agriculturally since farming did not pay. In the North, wages were three times higher than in the South. Blacks wanted to escape racism in the South and moving North promised a better life. The North was experiencing labor shortages in factories, and blacks took advantage of that. Many blacks built and created their own cities to escape racism. Moving to the North symbolized freedom from racism, but many of them did not obtain what they had hoped.
In the north the blacks only had menial jobs. Menial jobs were basically jobs that you needed no skill and received small pay. Jobs of skill were kept away from blacks. If blacks tried to get the skill jobs they were either turned away or beat up by workers.
... and slavery left millions of newly freed African Americans in the South without an education, a home, or a job. Before reconstruction was put in place, African Americans in the South were left roaming helplessly and hopelessly. During the reconstruction period, the African Americans’ situation did not get much better. Although helped by the government, African Americans were faced with a new problem. African Americans in the South were now being terrorized and violently discriminated by nativist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Such groups formed in backlash to Reconstruction and canceled out all the positive factors of Reconstruction. At last, after the Compromise of 1877, the military was taken out of the South and all of the Reconstruction’s efforts were basically for nothing. African Americans in the South were back to the conditions they started with.
On one hand the slaves were free, and on the other hand they were not given equal rights, and they were discriminated for the color of their skin tone. In other words, Reconstruction was a mixed success, which combined both positive and negative impacts. By the end of the era, the North and South were once again reunited, and all southern state legislatures had abolished slavery in their constitutions. However, it some sense, Reconstruction was a failure because blacks were not provided equal rights and opportunities. Racism and segregation did not end at all. On the other hand, there was a huge change to the country as the US was completely in a chaos stage during the civil war. Despite some obstructions, it can be concluded that the Reconstruction was somewhat beneficial for African American. As time passes, many schools and colleges were founded for blacks, and many other doors were opened to uplift their life. Overall, all these outcomes can be considered as a huge
In the north, slavery was just about non existent, so blacks could be seen free in a lot of
The North had confidently been recognized as a manufacturing society. Labor was needed, although not necessarily slave labor. Immigration was an encouragement. Immigrants that were from European regions worked in factories, built the railroads in the North, and developed the West. Very little stayed put in the South.
Through these achievements of Reconstruction, it created a better life for many people in the South.
African Americans migrated to escape racism and prejudice in the south, as well as to seek jobs in industrial cities and resulted in a major shift in where African Americans lived in the United States. Many blacks went north during the great migration due to the fact of believing that they would get better jobs and fair treatment in the north. The Chicago race riot caused by hatred for one another of members of different races in the same community. The black people had suffered the worst of the bloodshed, they had also been arrested by police twice the rate of whites. Many blacks viewed the migration as a well inspired deliverance from the land of suffering. The south could be hostile, but the north could be careful, cold, and lonely. The reason why the Chicago race riots was ludicrous was because of the Eugene Williams situation and doing that time thirty-eight people died 23 (African American and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. You can relate this back to what’s going on in present time with the police brutality how they are killing African American teens for no reason just because they believe they are up to no good. The Eugene Williams situation really set things off that’s why Chicago had that big riot just like the one in Baltimore with the Mike Brown brutality and
Between the years from 1865 to 1877, the nation’s laws and Constitution were rewritten to guarantee the basic rights of the former slaves (Why Reconstruction Matters). These basic rights included freedom, recognition as citizens which included the right to vote, and equality. African-Americans were now free from slavery, were able to establish their own church and united with their families that they were separated from during slavery. The Reconstruction gave them the ability for an equal chance of gaining an education as well. The South established the first state-supported public schools where severed both black and white children (Foner pg. 464).
Immigrants have always been an important part of United States’ population. Each year, there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants, from all around the world, including legal and illegal, come into the United States for job opportunities, new life, or the American Dream. “Immigrants have contributed significantly to the development of the United States. During the Lincoln administration, immigrants were actually encouraged to come to America, as they were considered valuable to the development of the country.” (Soylu & Buchanan, 2013). They believe that the US will give them more freedom, protection, and opportunities, which sometimes it becomes the major issues for immigrants. That’s why “the U.S. population is becoming more racially and
There was still not a lot of opportunity for African American workers. Some industries such as the textile industry offered almost no opportunity for African Americans, but some industries such as tobacco and iron provided some, but not a lot. Even with all of the problems and discrepancies, the south still grew economically in the post-reconstruction period of the “New South”.
There are many studies and suggestions on why the disparity between African Americans and Caucasian Americans exist in the United States jail system. According to the Council on Crime and Delinquency (March 13, 2012), 28% of African Americans will go to prison compared to 4% Caucasian Americans. So what is causing this disparity? Many agree that
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