AFTER WAR 1 Table of Contents Major issues.....................................................................................................................................2 Reconstruction.............................................................................................................................2 The freedmen’s Bureau................................................................................................................2 Reason of failure..........................................................................................................................2 References........................................................................................................................................3
AFTER WAR 2 Major issues The Union triumph in the 1865 Civil War might have provided freedom to nearly 4 million slaves; however the life of the Southern black people were far from perfect. The Black Codes retained taxes on blacks after freedom who wanted to pursue nonagricultural occupations, limited the capabilities of black people to rent land or buy guns, and even permitted the "unfit" parent’ s kids to be apprenticed to the previous slave rulers (Button, 2014). Reconstruction The Reconstruction was actually applied by Congress, which continued from 1866 to 1877, was intended at reordering the Southern cities afterward the Civil War, given the wealth for readmitting those states into the Union, and outlining the options by which both the whites and black people could live with each other in a non-slave civilization. The South, though, was not comfortable with it (Du Bois, 2017). The freedmen’s Bureau The Freedmen’s Bureau, officially known by the Bureau of immigrants or Refugees, Freedmen and Unrestrained Properties, was established by Congress in 1865 to assist millions of previous black slaves people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War (Bean, 2016). Reason of failure The Freedmen’s Bureau did not encourage the redistribution of the land and maximum of the land was returned to their real holder. It provided very little chances for black people to own a land. There were lack of funding, politics related to race, and the reconstruction. It failed to
AFTER WAR 3 deliver long-term protection for the blacks to make sure any measure of the racial equality (Bean, 2016). References Bean, C. B. (2016).Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas. Oxford University Press. Button, J. W. (2014).Blacks and social change: Impact of the civil rights movement in southern communities(Vol. 1029). Princeton University Press. Du Bois, W. E. B. (2017).Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. Routledge. Mattes, M., & Savun, B. (2009). Fostering peace after civil war: Commitment problems and agreement design.International studies quarterly,53(3), 737-759.