Successes and Failures of the Reconstruction Process

Successes:

-Enforcement act of 1870 protected freedmen and people who supported the government choices in terms of racism.

-Government banned Ku Klux Klan.

-Afro-Americans celebrated as they tasted freedom for the first time.

-The freedmen had oppurtunity to find their family members, own their own land, worship their god and be educated.

-The Creation of Freedmen's Bureau provided essential clothing, medical supplies for white and black refugees.

-The Reconstruction Act of 1867 allowed freedmen to vote. This act paved the way for the 15th amendment, which stated that no citizen would be denied the right to vote.

-Sharecroping and Tenant farming for the first time gave freedmen a sense of ownership.

-Reconstruction drove the indutrialization process in the south.

-The fundraising for Reconstruction was successful.

Failures:

-White farmers felt superior to the black farmers and felt dissatisfied and angered with the reconstruction plan.

-The rise and intensification of the racist Ku Klux Klan against black freedmen.

-Born out of this anger and dissatisfaction was the white supremacist group known as the Ku Klux Klan.

-Mass murder of republicans and black people in states such as Arkansas and Louisiana.

-The union is restored however it didn't immediately abolish all slavery groups, the Ku Klux Klan have killed several people who supported freedmen.

-The south's progress in indutrialization was not as prosporous as the northern one.

-The corruption during the fundraising held back alot of the money that was being sent.

-Despite sharecropping, the white farmers evicted the Freedmen and their families by not paying the money promised as a result, the poverty levels did not increase.

Conclusion:

After careful evaluation of the reconstruction plan, I conclude that it was a significant success. The most important aspect of of reconstruction to me are: the sense of ownership that the freedmen got by tenant farming, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and the Fifteenth Amendment that provided voting rights to the African-Americans and protected them fro Ku Klux Klan. Despite all of what happenned, the Reconstruction Plan paved the way for the

15th ammendment and without these events occurring, african-americans would still be harassed and enslaved by groups devoted to being superior to blacks. If today the African American community is able to vie with whites equally and outperform the white community in certain aspects of life such as sports and music, the foundations were laid during the Reconstruction Era.