"Reconstruction: The Perfect Failure"

 

 

 

The reconstruction did not fail to protect the FREEDMAN because FREEDMAN did not get CIVAL RIGHTS. Many FREEDMAN where not treated equal like white citizen's. BLACK CODES were passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866 after the civil war. These laws restricted black people freedom. In 1890 Louisiana passed a law which states blacks and whites couldn't ride on the same train. Homer Plessy a free man was seven-eights white but was still required to ride in the colored car. On June 7, 1892 Plessy bought an first class ticket in the white section and was asked to move. Plessy refused and was remanded for trail. In the  PLESSY V.S FERGUSON case Plessy argued the Louisiana law denied his rights under the 13th AMENDMENT. Plessy was convicted and was fined $25.


After Lincoln assentation  ANDREW JOHNSON became president and was left with the reconstruction of the US. Republicans told Johnson that southern states were economically in chaos and urged him to protect the rights of FREEDMAN. But Johnson didn't care. FREEDMAN were treated unfair and did not get most civil rights and that's why I think the reconstruction failed.