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= = Successes of Reconstruction

=== The Civil War devastated the whole nation with continuous conflict and turmoil. After the Civil War, the nation was trying to get back on its feet by starting a reconstruction era; the reconstruction was a nationwide attempt to recover from excessive debt. It started in 1865 and ended in 1877, with the Compromise of 1877. During this era, African-Americans was more accepted in different areas than before the Civil War, public schools were open to all citizens, and the plantation system was broken up, which led to the rearrangement of land. All of these reasons and more made the reconstruction era a success. ===


===In 1866, Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act which divided the South into five districts to protect the rights of newly freed blacks, which help black people in many ways. In government, more than 1,500 African-Americans were either in office or mayors in towns. This was a landmark event or all African-Americans because before the Civil War, most of them weren’t allowed to vote history. Even though most of the black office holders never made important events while in office, they still made history. Joseph Rainey became the first black person of the United States House of Representatives and the first elected black person of Congress. Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first black member of the Senate, and the first black individual of the Congress. Blacks were also elected from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, which were the heavily racist states. All of these black governors were members of the Republican Party, to them; Republicans represented Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, while the Southern Democrats represented the party of slavery and secession. Until 1876, the Republicans made genuine efforts to make sure that southern blacks were able to vote. ===


===Before the Civil War, schools across the United States were segregated based on race. After the Civil War, they were still segregated but the conditions in the African-American schools were a lot better, like textbooks were updated and classrooms were more fitting for children. Colleges were also open separately to black people during the Reconstruction, due to generous white northerners. South Carolina, Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , Texas , Virginia , Arkansas , Tennessee , and North Carolina were the succeeded stated in the United States but during the Reconstruction era, all those states were reemitted back into the United States. This helped the United States become more unified because the other states would help in decision making and military, instead of the whole country being divided into two rivaling sections. Plantations were the main source of money for the South until the Reconstruction era. === ===In class, I learned about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, which all led to the Reconstruction of the United States. The Reconstruction era changed the history of the United States in good ways and bad. The good way is that U.S.A became more industrialized, the bad reason is that there were more racism than ever before. The reconstruction era matters in history today because it changed the wayamerica operates.===

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