What went well?
- The 13th amendment, the amendment in which the slaves were "freed" was a pretty good outcome of reconstruction.
- We would all love to think that the 14th amendment, the law making freed slaves citizens, although the law was actually formed for buisnessmen with large corporations. Out of the 150 cases, only 15 involved African Americans.
- The 15th amendment was good, because it gave every man the opportunity to vote. Although this was a very dangerous act for the African Americans. Red Shirts, a terrorist group much like the KKK would collect the information of the blacks that had voted, and often times, killed them and their entire family later that week.
What didn't go so well?
- Pretty much everything.
- Black Codes were formed to limit the freedoms of African Americans
- Terrorist groups such as the Red Shirts, The White League and the Ku Klux Klan were formed by confederate veterans.
- Democrats controlled the south, killing pretty much all the people that got in their way.
Reconstruction...Today?
Yes, reconstruction is still going on today. Daily, new laws are being formed and voted on to make America more equal. At the same time, there are many people working against this in order to keep America dominated by white men. People still believe that whites are more superior.
News Story:http://current.com/items/89207182_la-teen-who-hung-nooses-gets-4-months-in-prison.htm
Teen hung a noose at a civil rights protest for 4 black kids that were accused of attacking a white teen.
"Jeremiah Munsen, 19, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for dangling nooses from the back of a pickup in September and driving past a group of protesters at a bus depot in Alexandria, Louisiana, about 35 miles south of Jena, where the marches took place."
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