Successes and Failures of Reconstruction-American History

Jim Crow laws

failure- Supported discrimination and racial segregation

Taxes

failure-Elevated in order to rebuild the South

Corruption

failure-Happened when taxes were used in the wrong way

Black codes

failure-Used at the beginning of reconstruction to restrict what African-Americans could do

Sharecropping and tenant farming

failure-Wasn't fair to the workers and owners of land got half of the product

Poverty

failure-White southerners lost their land and newly freed African-Americans didn't have many job offers

Ku Klux Klan

failure-group of people dressed in robes who attacked African-Americans and whites who helped them

Industrialization in the South

failure-slow

Expansion of South and North's economy

success-Brought many offers to both South and North

More laws

success-Protected rights of freedmen

Education

success-Provided to everyone and forced in the South

Reunification of the Union

success-Separation lasted 4 years but reconstruction brought back together

Enforcement Act of 1870

success-gave president the authority to enforce the first part of the 15th amendment

Freedmen's Bureau

success-helped former slaves and poor whites in South

The compromise of 1877

success-informal deal that settled the election in 1876

Freedom

success-slaves were freed