amber's Humanities blog

Reconstruction refers to the policies when the nation was focused on winning the Civil War, abolishing slavery, defeating the Confederacy, and reconstructing the United States. Reconstruction addressed how secessionist states would regain self-government and be reseated in Congress, the civil status of the former leaders of the Confederacy, and the Constitutional and legal status of freedman especially their civil rights and whether they should be given the right to vote.Reconstruction had made some progress in providing Freedmen with equal rights under the law, and they were voting and taking political office. However, there was a rise in white paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and Red Shirts, whose political aim was to drive out the Republicans. They also disrupted organizing and terrorized blacks to bar them from the polls. Reconstuction in the sense of small groups like the KKK, White League, and Red shirts is relevant to today being the war in Afghansitan and Iraq. If the government would have tried hard enough to control those groups many people wouldn't have lost their lives. But since our government is practically all over the wars over seas the people in the groups over there are most likely to disinegrate into nothing anymore. (the source is THE NEWS!!!)