Failures+of+Reconstruction

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The reconstruction was the process that took place following the Civil War. America was devastated after long and trying battles. Losses were heavy for both sides. It was in this, the state of emergency that the government came together to fix everything. This reconstruction involved improving the South, fixing the economy, and uniting the government. While all this ideas were noble, because of problems internally this eventually led to many failures of reconstruction. There were many specific problems that played a part in the whole downfall.

During the course of the quarter, we learned about the Civil War which took place from 1861 to 1865 and was between the Confederacy and the Union. After the war ended, the period of reconstruction took place. The war messed up the economy, pulled apart the government, and caused several racial problems. Most of the land in the south was destroyed, the economy suffered severely, and slavery was abolished. The reconstruction was meant to fix everything, from the economy, to the politcal and racial problems. It wasn't a huge success however, there were a lot of different failures.

A common trend that could be pulled away from this situation that was showed throughout history was the fact that people try to fix the state of the country after war. From the Revolutionary War to World War II, our government, our people have tried to repair the state of the country. From the economic problems to political and even social, people attempt to repair the flaws but it doesn't always end up with a happy ending. Whether it is a success or not always depends on many facts. It depends on how bad the situations are. It also depends on how people go to fix the state. From this, we have learned what doesn't work and other different things.

Throughout history, we have learned about what works and what doesn't when attempting to fix the state of our country after war. After the Civil War, many things came up that people didn't think were even there. This shows us what could happen if we were to fix our country after war these days. A lot of things are bring up to the surface, for example, after the Civil War, during the reconstruction process, racial problems were brought up. The Ku Klux Klan was brought up and slaves that were finally free didn't have a lot of time to enjoy it before problems occured. Civil rights was a big thing that came up. We also learned about that people messed up all the time. Someone's attempted to do something might backfire and cause problems which happened during the reconstruction.

In the end, there were many failures of the reconstruction era but from that period of time in history, everyone can learn something. Everything can't be fix easily and there are always going to be problems and the reconstruction was a good example of this fact because there was alot of things that went wrong. Our country got through it and it's important to know about that today because it can prevent problems simliar the problems faced in that time period.

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 * Rachael Jefferson