Senator Paper

His 125 senator assignment

United States Senator Paper

Angel Sidhu

His/125

October 25, 2010

There were many challenges that people had to face after the Reconstruction. The reconstruction hit the south the hardest, they lost everything. They had to rebuild their economy as well as their homes and businesses. Their economy had been based on free labor and now since that was gone they had to pay for workers for farm workers as well as cooks, maids, manufacturing, everything. There was no money even in the banks as the confederate money was no longer considered to have any value. They even had to rebuild railroads and bridges and their entire infrastructure. Mostly all of the rebuilding was done with government loans (Davidson−Gienapp−Heyrman−Lytle−Stoff, 2005).

One of the main reasons for the failure of Reconstruction was the dropped prices of crops. Many farmers and sharecroppers could not live off what they earned "The depression disrupted commerce, bankrupted merchants, seriously undermined the economic situation or artisans, and all but eliminated prospects for social mobility among unskilled laborers of both races." Presidential Reconstruction under Lincoln and Johnson demonstrates the difficulties inherent in reshaping the South after the Civil War (Davidson−Gienapp−Heyrman−Lytle−Stoff, 2005). The lack of northern vision concerning the postwar South, disputes between Congress and the presidency over lines of authority, and the unwillingness of southern whites to allow blacks any significant power in southern society were main reasons that reconstruction failed. Even though Reconstruction failed, at least we tried but some people have to learn how to change. Reconstruction changed the way of life for blacks. Some changes were good and some changes made life difficult, but overall the blacks made it out of slavery safely. Reconstruction was the original...