Reconstruction

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Another main purpose of Reconstruction was to rebuild the country to the union, and this goal also was achieved. Political leaders wanted to return South as it was before, and to do it as quickly as possible. As it usually happens all the leaders had their own plan how to do this. Abraham Lincoln used Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction plan. Due to this plan southern territory has to abolish the slavery and 10 percent of population have to take an oath of allegiance to the United States to form a new government.[8] It was not hard for the South to accept Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction plan, and soon Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee added to the new government. Lincoln proved to be successful by reuniting the South, which proves the success of Reconstruction.

In conclusion, the Reconstruction was a successful era, where the main goals were achieved, such as abolishment of black slavery and rebuilding the country as a union. Blacks got their long-expected freedom, and equal rights to whites. “All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes may sue and be sued… in all the courts of low and equity of this state, and may acquire personal property, and choses in action [rights to bring a lawsuit to recover chattels, money, or a debt], by descent or purchase, and may dispose of the same in the same manner and the same extent that white persons may.”[9] Also the South was returned back to U.S. and the country became united again. Since time goes a lot views about the Reconstruction remain different from each other. Someone thinking that the Reconstruction was a time of great corruption, while others consider Reconstruction the time of great changes which gave African Americans freedom and some power. This time brought a lot of problems and debates, but anyway this period was successful for nowadays America. “Despite of all this, Reconstruction did transform the country. As a result of Reconstruction, slavery was abolished, and the legal basis for freedom was enshrined in the Constitution. Indeed, blacks exercised a measure of political and economic freedom during Reconstruction that never entirely disappeared over the decades to come. In many areas feed people, as exemplified by Congressman Jefferson Franklin Long among many others, asserted what they could never have during slavery- control over their lives, their churches, their labor, and their families.”[10]

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