Reconstruction_Failure_Or_Success

Reconstruction Failure Or Success During Reconstruction America missed the opportunity to meet racial equality. James McPherson's paper "Reconstruction: A Revolution Manqué" claims that many things such as the poverty and illiteracy of blacks after the Civil War contributed to the racial inequality during this time period. McPherson believes that for this reason the Reconstruction era was a failure. I believe the other things that were Accomplished in this time period overshadow this failure. According to McPherson, there were quite a few reasons that America failed to achieve racial equality during reconstruction. The reason that contributed most to it was probably that the North was not entirely committed to it. Several Northern states did not pass the laws that would allow Negro suffrage. These laws did not end up getting passed until the Fifteenth Amendment. The North did not want racial equality because they felt it was unfair to treat the blacks in the manner they were. Northerners wanted it because the South was opposed to it and the North still had opposition to the South after the war. Another reason for the failure of racial equality during Reconstruction was the opposition the South had for it. They often reacted with violent organizations such reconstruction, racial, equality, failure, during, time, period, blacks, because, america, war, wanted, things, south, mcpherson, important, solved, reason, people, passed, north, era, equal, black, believe, been, vote, southern, problem, now, money, man, made, longer, laws