Successes and Failure of the Reconstruction

Failures:
-Ku Klux Klan is a group of people who named their group "Kuklos" because it meant 'circle' in Greek. The people in that group wore robes and masks. This is because they pretended to be ghosts, Confederate ghosts. That they were in revenge against the enemies of the South. The new freedom of the black southerners would be beaten up or even killed.
- The South wasn't as industrialized as the North (southern industries didn't make finished goods like furniture) most of the South's industrial growth came from cotton.
- Lots of corruption (massive change and growth, wasn't controllable) .
- Many black people after being slaves did not have the money to live in a home, with a job, and food. They were trapped in this kind of poverty.
-People were still being racist, in the North and the South.

Successes:
- Enforcement Act of 1870 (helped as a law the black people who were tortured, beaten up, or killed by the Ku Klux Klan).
- Promoting business (growth of business would bring better time).
- Compromise of 1877
- Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendment guaranteed the African Americans the right of citizenship.

There were lots of things happening during the Reconstruction. The South was still needing of help, but mostly the black people that had to fight for a living because of the threats and harassment from the Ku Klux Klan which was unbearable. Though the South had problems with the industrialization, they would still trade with the North who needed that cotton too, for furniture or food. Many laws were put to help the black families, but some were not respectful to the law and disagreeing with it, so even if the law supported the black and helped some people still didn't obey it.

Information Source: America Pathway to the Present