Do you consider Reconstruction (1865-1877) to have been a success or failure? Why? Answer this question before Sunday, Nov. 22, and comment on two other students' blogs by Wednesday, Nov. 25.

I believe that the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War was a failure because it resulted mainly in corruption and it did not reach its goal of uniting the Conferderacy and the Union. President Lincoln along with President Johnson tried to create reconstruction plans, but they both failed. The Radicals refused to recognize both the Johnson and Lincoln governments because they did not include any of the "radical" ideas. Also the Reconstruction Era resulted in the Crop-Lien System, the Whiskey Ring, the Panic of 1873, and the Ku Klux Klan. Although the Reconstruction Era did have some positive aspects such as the addition of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment, the reconstruction still resulted with the Conferderates "redeeming " seven of their former confederate governments. The Reconstruction Era was a failure because even when the Union and the Confederacy united for a short amount of time, they still had many conflicts and disputes over matters such as slavery. Also, the Reconstructon Era cause the creation of the Jim Crow Laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests; the reconstruction caused an increase in African-American discrimination. If the Reconstruction Era was a success, then the Confederate governments would not have been redeemed and the Nation would have been able to solve their differences and make compromises in shorter periods of time.