Reconstructon Successes & Failures

　

Successes

1. Union is restored.
2. The South's economy grows and new wealth is created in the North.
3. Fouteenth and Fifteenth amendements guarantee African Ameican the rights of citizensship, equal protection under the law, and suffrage.
4. Freedmen's Bureau and other organizations help many black families obtain housing jobs and schooling.
5. Southern states adopt a system of madatory education.

Failures

1. Many white southerners remain bitter toward the federal government and Republican Party.
2. The South is slow to industrialize.
3. After federal troops are withdrawn, southern state government and terrorist organizations effectively deny African Americans the right to vote.
4. Many black and white southerners remain caught in a cycle of poverty.
5. Racist attitudes toward African Americans continue, in both North and South.

I disagree with the compromise of 1877 because President Hayes getting rid of the federal troops in the South was not advantageous to the African Americans. This is because the federal troops were the ones who defended them and made oppositions to give them their rights.

However, I do noit disagree with it completely because the southerners were going to regain their politics, and have new railroads. This will enhance their economy. Furthermore, this ended the Reconstruction. This is a significant change because the Reconstruction was mainly between the white southerners and the freed slaves. Fortunately, this ended and the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments remains and guaranteed African Americans the rights of citizenship, equal protection under the law, and suffargae. This means the white southerners couldn't try to treat them poorly because now they were equal!