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by Sodapop on October 26th, 2008
the north got too greedy and cut it short and the south went back to the way it was until the 60s.
by triciajean on February 15th, 2009
Reconstruction seemed designed to fail. You cannot "free" people into destitution. Black families had no land, no possessions, not so much as a mule to use to grow crops. Same freedom offered to the new nation of Lesotho smack in the middle of South Africa. It was like, Okay, go be your own nation on that bit of hard mud. We take no further responsibility for you. In the United States, responsibility for having brought families here under slavery was very low. We abandoned them.
by Rebelheart on February 15th, 2009
As regarding Reconstruction ending too soon and creating Racial turmoil in the South, Reconstruction was at least partially the cause of the racial turmoil in the South. One of the way the Yankees kept and maintained control of the South was by using the Blacks to do their dirty work. Dividing and conquering was the tactic. Worked well too!
As far as the Northern attitude towards Blacks, I would only ask that anyone with any curiosity Google
"Black Codes" and "Black Laws". In much of the North, it was illegal for a Black person to even BE there.
This was driven mostly out of fear of competition in the labor market and various fear tactics used by political groups.
by Pete on February 14th, 2009
The former Confederacy known as the South was under U.S. military command created by the radical Republican Congress that wanted to punish the South because of secession and slavery.
by Rebelheart on February 14th, 2009
The North finished looting the South and it's people.
Pupit state governments were established and the states were placed in hopeless debt and poverity.
All or much of the property was purchased by the damn yankees for pennies on the dollar and much of that property remains in their hands today.
Relationship were so damaged that the US can, and could, never be a truly united country again.
Laws were past to insure that the North would always have a commercial advantage over the South and could exploit the South and her resources for the future.
by The Wise Guy on February 14th, 2009
Changed for the worse. It'l just never be the same.
by tyty2112 on October 19th, 2010
The New South
The new Southern way was going to be difficult to some of the white people. All of the colored people were now free and could get paying jobs and be in a higher authority than some white people. This frustrated the whites because they were so used to being above the blacks (as slave drivers and plantations owners.) In a few moments you will find out what changed in the South after the Civil War ended.
The white people used to farm on plantations with slaves doing all of the work while they just profited off of them. Now after the slaves became free the white men had to work for themselves. The black people also could get plantations and run them as well as the whites could. This made the whites plantations a lot harder to run because now some of there profit had to go to paying workers.
The south’s new economy changed drastically as there were no more slaves and more white workers that demanded money. The economy soon started to go down very fast. This made the plantations owners raise prices on all of there goods that they were growing and selling.
The reconstructions money was used towards private means instead of trying to build up the economy. The white people were so used to having the slaves wait on them hand and foot that they spent all of the reconstruction money on there personal means to please them. The black people meanwhile were trying to rebuild the economy up to its boom day.
So now I hope you can see how the economy was devastated because of slavery. And I also see how the white people where not helping to rebuild it but was pleasing them.
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what an arrogant, and wrong, comment.
by Rebelheart on February 14th, 2009
Congress ended reconstruction. Did they not?
by Sodapop on February 14th, 2009
Actually, reconstruction, (or the damage that it caused) continues today. It was not officially ended until sometime in the 1870's. Reliable rumor has it that Grant made a deal with Forrest. Forrest agreed to disband the KKK, which he did. Grant in return, agreed to withdraw the federal troops that occupied the South, which he did. Problem was, nothing changed politically. The South was still exploited, both politically and economically. Tariff and freight laws were written to give Northern business an advantage. Re: "Pittsburg Freight".
by Rebelheart on February 14th, 2009
Have you been to the South? You seem to have a relatively negative attitude towards us. There was nothing constructive about Reconstruction. It was a shameful chapter in history and I don't blame the government and the governmental schools for not teaching about it.
by Rebelheart on February 14th, 2009
So in return for this advantage congress pulled troops from the south leaving it as it was. correct? if the KKK was disbanded why does it exist today?
by Sodapop on February 14th, 2009
i've lived in the south. live in virginia now. most of what i have learned is from southern text books.
by Sodapop on February 14th, 2009
i do not have a negative attitude towards the south. for the past i do.
by Sodapop on February 14th, 2009
Great. I would like to point out that Virginia is only partially Southern now. The northern part of Virginia is now just part of DC. And as for "Southern" textbooks. I have lived in Alabama and I haven't seen a Souther textbook used in schools in years.
Can you identify a single positive thing the South received during "Reconstruction"? Can anyone? When you said the North ended Reconstruction too soon, did you really mean that?
by Rebelheart on February 15th, 2009
They pulled funds to repair the south too soon, they pulled troops too soon. things were still settling in the south. it needed more time.
by Sodapop on February 15th, 2009
I fear you have a total misunderstanding about what Reconstruction was like. The name gives it a cruel twist of irony. Money to repair? There was none. Reconstruction was totally designed to take possession of any property and anything of value from the citizens by the North.
Please, Google "Carpetbagger" and read just a couple of articles.
Not for me, I just hate for you the think this period was anything other than the hateful, hurtful period that has been hidden for way too long.
by Rebelheart on February 15th, 2009
it says they were both bad and good for the south. here is the argument for their positives:Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers moved to areas in the South where secession by the Confederates states had failed. Many schoolteachers and religious missionaries arrived in the South, some of them sponsored by northern churches. Many were abolitionists who sought to continue the struggle for racial equality; they often became agents of the federal Freedmen's Bureau, which started operations in 1865 to assist freedmen and also white refugees. The bureau established public schools in rural areas of the South where public schools had not previously existed. Other Northerners who moved to the South participated in establishing railroads where infrastructure was lacking.
by Sodapop on February 15th, 2009