End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction:
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Reconstruction Period: "The term Reconstruction refers to the efforts made in the United States between 1865 and 1877 to restructure the political, legal, and economic systems in the states that had seceded from the Union."
-definition by The Free Dictionary
Successes: The successes of Reconstruction include Freedmen's Bureau; the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments; and the reunification of the Union.
-definition by The Free Dictionary
Successes: The successes of Reconstruction include Freedmen's Bureau; the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments; and the reunification of the Union.
Compromise of 1877:
The Compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction. After the Compromise much of the progress made during reconstruction was undone.
"The Democrats reluctantly agreed that Hayes might take office in return for withdrawing troops in the two states in which the remained... The compromise bought peace at a price. Partisan violence was averted by sacrificing the civil rights of southern blacks. With the Hayes-Tilden deal, the Republican party quietly abandoned its commitment to racial equality."
Cohen, Lizabeth, and Thomas A. Bailey. "23." The American Pageant. By David M. Kennedy. 14th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. N. pag. Print.
Cohen, Lizabeth, and Thomas A. Bailey. "23." The American Pageant. By David M. Kennedy. 14th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. N. pag. Print.
Failures of Reconstruction:
"You say you have emancipated us. You have; and I thank you for it. But what is your emancipation? When the Israelites were emancipated they were told to go and borrow of their neighbors—borrow their coin, borrow their jewels, load themselves down with the means of subsistence; after, they should go free in the land which the Lord God gave them. When the Russian serfs had their chains broken and given their liberty, the government of Russia—aye, the despotic government of Russia—gave to those poor emancipated serfs a few acres of land on which they could live and earn their bread. But when You turned us close, you gave us no acres. You turned us loose to the sky, to the storm, to the whirlwind, and, worst, of all you turned us loose to the wrath of our infuriated masters."
- Frederick Douglass , summing up the failure of
Reconstruction, 1876
- Frederick Douglass , summing up the failure of
Reconstruction, 1876