North's reconstruction gains and problems

NORTH GAINS / PROBLEMS

reconstruction helped the North to modernize very quickly, unlike the South. The effects of the Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid industrialization, had resulted in factories being created in the North, where they multiplied and flourished. By contrast, the Southern economy still relied on agriculture

The vast majority, like the family shown on the right, were in the Southern states. Most freed slaves - called freedmen - had no education, no money, and owned no land or farming tools. So the most immediate problem facing the president and leaders in Congress was getting food and other help to the freed slaves.

SOUTH GAINS/ PROBLEMS

Senator Lyman Trumbull proposed the first Civil Rights Law, which stated that African Americans were to be granted equal rights as citizens in all aspects. The Radical Republicans also passed the Reconstruction Amendments, which were directed at ending slavery and providing full citizenship to freedmen.

However, Reconstruction failed by most other measures: Radical Republican legislation ultimately failed to protect former slaves from white persecution and failed to engender fundamental changes to the social fabric of the South. ... Reconstruction thus came to a close with many of its goals left unaccomplished.

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b) that he was not a free man