How did Reconstruction efforts during the Civil war reveal conflicting visions over the kind of freedoms former slaves would be granted?

How did changing Northern attitudes affect the end of Reconstruction?

 

How did Reconstruction efforts during the Civil war reveal conflicting visions over the kind of freedoms former slaves would be granted?

General Sherman allocated the property to former slaves. Most citizens found the reconstruction after the American civil war to be a disappointment. The impacted areas included land, employment, transportation, voting, education and legislation. There was a mistake. African-Americans have the freedom to vote by following the 15th amendment.

The 1863 declaration of independence released African Americans in rebel countries and during the Civil War, the 13th Amendment emancipated all American slaves everywhere. As a result, the majority of Southern Blacks now confronted Northern Blacks, a free people who were surrounded by many violent Whites, with difficulties. A freeman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, "We, the colored people, didn't know how to be free, and the white people didn't know how to get a colored free man." Even after the declaration of emancipation, two more years of war, African American troops, and Confederacy's defeat, the country was not ready to deal with the issue of full citizenship The Reconstruction of the southern states during the Civil War, carried out in 1866-187 by the Congress, was intended to provide the means for their reintroduction into the Union and define how to accomplish that purpose.

The 1863 declaration of independence released African Americans in rebel countries and during the Civil War, the 13th Amendment emancipated all American slaves everywhere. As a result, the majority of Southern Blacks now confronted Northern Blacks, a free people who were surrounded by many violent Whites, with difficulties. A freeman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, "We, the colored people, didn't know how to be free, and the white people didn't know how to get a colored free man." Even after the declaration of emancipation, two more years of war, African American troops, and Confederacy's defeat, the country was not ready to deal with the issue of full citizenship The Reconstruction of the southern states during the Civil War, carried out in 1866-187 by the Congress, was intended to provide the means for their reintroduction into the Union and define how to accomplish that purpose. In the wake of the war, black and white teachers from North and South worked together to give the people who had emancipation the chance to understand. The literacy opportunity has been used by ex slaves of all ages. Grandfathers and their grandchildren were waiting in schools to gain equality. Since the Civil War, African Americans have been permitted to cast their votes and to take an active role in electoral systems, purchase land from previous owners, pursue their own work and use public housing with protection of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. 

Black southern people have done all they can to speed northern attitudes. The former Slaves of the South had gathered in conventions to express their vision for their own region and race within months of the end of the Civil War. In contrast, black southerners stressed, by their devotion to the Union, that the reconstruction of the former confederacy could not take place without participation of their white neighbours. Blacks also requested that the nation recognize its citizens' rights in the name of justice, the sacrifice of the northerners and the nation's revolutionary heritage. In 1865, most White people in the north reluctantly took up these demands. After two years of white intransigence towards the south, African America's pleas and political necessity convinced many North Republicans that the restitution of the Union would require citizenship to be extended to former slaves.

How did changing Northern attitudes affect the end of Reconstruction?

Over time, the northern viewpoints of reconstruction have changed. Following the end of the civil war in 1865, many northerners thought they needed to reconstruct the South to see that it was reformed. The amendments to end slavery respectively, confer former slaves citizenship, and allow all men the right to vote, were pushed for 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Furthermore in 1865 the Federal Government set up the Freedmen's Office to help former slaves meet with families they had lost; the Freedmen's Office tried over time to teach them to read and write. However, rebuilding generally did not involve the provision of land to most former Slaves and many South Americans tried to overturn the gains made by instituting black codes during the reconstruction. These laws have often binded former slaves and allowed them to operate freely; laws have also limited the right to vote and other rights of former slaves.

In 1867, the federal government instituted military rebuilding which, with the exception of Tennessee, divided the South into five military districts under northern general supervision. The southern states had to pass the 14th amendment and establish new national delegations and constitutions. By 1870, all the southern states had been allowed to join the Union.

By the 1870s, for several reasons, many northerners started losing interest in rebuilding. Some thought that by the passing of 13th-, 14th-, and 15th amendments, and setting up the Freedman Bureau and military rebuilding, they had done everything they could to help their former slaves. Second, KKK and other forces' violence in the south weakened the power of the Freedman's office, which ended in the beginning of the 1870s. Finally, the 1873 financial crisis panic reduced the interest of northerners in spending more federal funds to rebuild the South. Reconstruction ended with President Hayes' election in 1877. There were disputes concerning the election of 1876 between the Democrat Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford Hayes. The republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South in exchange for Hayes' president, which would put a stop to reconstruction. The compromise of 1877 is known as this agreement.

White northerners could never pour out black civil rights in white southern blood. While the history of White South resistance is deeply embedded in history books and historical events, the critical force of White Northern racial attitudes is a part of American history that has been deliberately neglected. The lame excuses for white northern apathy lack of desire and concern for material concerns disregard the American consensus on Black people's place in society. All reconstruction issues go hand in hand with the white north's attitude towards black.

The 1876 commitment actually ended the era of rebuilding. The promises to protect civil and political rights of black people from the South were not honored and the end of federal interference in South business led to the generalization of black voters' disenfranchisement.