Was reconstruction a success or failure?
Was reconstruction a success or failure? Provide 4 to 5 examples explaining your point of view
Min of 2 primary sources and 3 secondary sources
These & outline:
The goal of the Reconstruction was to rebuild the South and help them to become a part of the Union once again. Reconstruction was success for many reasons, but more importantly because it broke barriers for the African American people, giving them a voice.
Introduction Paragraph
Economic and social differences between the North/South
Agriculture
Industrialization
North was against slavery
South were pro-slavery
States versus Federal rights
Body Paragraph #1
Hardships of African Americans/Slaves
Ku Klux Klan
Black Codes
Memphis Race Riot
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Bleeding Kansas
Body Paragraph #2
Growth of the Abolition Movement
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Underground railroad
Prohibition
Women’s Suffrage
Body Paragraph #3
The election of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln’s plan
Emancipation Proclamation
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson/impeachment
Ulysses S. Grant
Body Paragraph #4
Civil War
Secession of the South from the Union
Destruction of the South
Southern financial system ruined
End of Civil War and Rebuilding
End of Slavery
South rejoins
Body Paragraph #5
New Amendments to the Constitution
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Enforcement Act of 1870
Conclusion Paragraph
End of the Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Jim Crow laws
Civil Righfstts movements
Country still healing
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