Advantages Of The Reconstruction Era

The Reconstruction Era from eighteen sixty-five to eighteen seventy-seven was a very crucial time for blacks in the south. After the Civil War, slaves thought they were freed to live their lives like the whites. President Lincoln and Johnson took baby steps during the reconstruction process. The fourteenth amendment was a very important time for black’s future in America. For Blacks, this meant that their freedom could come quick or very slow in America at this time.

After the war, slaves were given forty acres and a mule according to the William T. Sherman. Blacks were given a chance of freedom and given a second chance for new life. They built their churches and schools. They looked for families to reunite with after the war. Their homes they built let the wives stay at home and the husband go out to work. President Lincoln and Johnson’s vision for the former slaves was not in a favor of them. Lincoln wanted to end slavery, but he wanted to end the war more. He wanted life basically to go back to usually for all of them except the slaves that held no kind of weight in any part of his vision in the reconstruction era. Lincoln wanted to protect southern aristocrats and their property. He wanted pardon the poor white confederates. Lincoln ten percent plan was not in their favor of freed slaves.

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They couldn’t find a common fair ground for everyone. They wanted to build up the aristocrats and keep down the former slaves. Postwar was chance to build up the south and give the former slaves a chance of freedom. The Fourteenth Amendment gave made former slaves it was a start to positive future for them, but it still did not grant thethem a right vote. The government fell apart because of their poor decision making. No one could come to terms on how to rebuild with