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.
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i completely agree with your post because you didn't just point out the negative aspects of the war, but you also wrote about the positive things that happened. even though most of the reconstruction plan failed, it did help out the former slaves and helped rebuild the buildings and railroads that were destroyed during the war.
ReplyDeleteI think both of you are right! Reconstruction
ReplyDelete= Faliure. Their were positive outcomes such as the ammendments, but all of the negative outcomes sort of outweigh them. All the plans were basically ineffective and therefore unsuccesful.
I agree with you that Reconstruction failed. You made many great points like the fact that Reconstruction "resulted in the Crop-Lien System, the Whiskey Ring, the Panic of 1873, and the Ku Klux Klan" and that "the Radicals refused to recognize both the Johnson and Lincoln governments because they did not include any of the "radical" ideas." I agree that even though Reconstruction is what caused the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, it was, overall, a failure.
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