Period 7: Civil War and Reconstruction (1 Jan 1860 Jahr – 1 Jan 1877 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

Radical Reconstruction responded to the failures of Presidential Reconstruction by passing laws and Constitutional amendments to protect African-Americans’ rights. Although this was initially successful and led to increased African-American political participation, Reconstruction eventually failed due to white supremacist violence, Southern resistance to Republican control, and Northern weariness with supervising the South.

Reconstruction was successful as black people now were citizens and had the ability to vote but were still surpressed by their white predecessors and the Ku Klux Klan who used violence and fear to prevent blacks from even thinking about voting.