What_Problems_Did_Reconstruction_Seek_To_Solve__Was_It_Succe

What Problems Did Reconstruction Seek To Solve' Was It Successful' Reconstruction sought to solve many problems that the United States was now faced with after the war. Following the Union victory in 1865, the nation was preserved as a whole and slavery was defeated. The United States now had to cope with the damage and conflict left over from the war and work towards resuming normal life as one united nation. During Reconstruction, unsuccessful attempts were made to solve the social, economic and political problems that arose from the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union. The defeat of the Confederacy raised many questions and concerns for American society. “Slavery was now destroyed, but what kind of labor system would replace it' African Americans were now free, but what would they do with their new freedom' How would their former masters react' Who would lead the new South now' The policies of the period called Reconstruction were the attempt to answer these questions” (WBA, 536). Southerners, Northerners and freedmen all had a different conception of what should happen during Reconstruction. Southern whites wanted a return to stability and a continuance of a society where they were in control. They did not want to face competition from the millions of reconstruction, political, power, now, former, economic, blacks, whites, union, states, social, slaves, rights, out, new, wba, wanted, united, suffrage, south, society, slavery, return, readmission, racism, questions, one, northerners, nation, left, goals, freedmen, free, failed, during