Cnm history final project

1. The Reconstruction
Progressive or the opposite?

2. Did the reconstruction period do more harm than it did good?
 The reconstruction period set out to do great things and fix the uneven
and unfair things in the United States, but these attempts failed at fixing
African American voting rights, poverty, and acts of violence and racism
towards them.
 African Americans were victimized and their ways of life in the U.S were
made unsafe and difficult. There were laws placed that enabled African
Americans the right to vote but it didn’t really help by much which means
some of these laws were pointless. African Americans had a rise in violence
directed towards them from these laws that “enabled” them to become
citizens and do citizen things.

3. Articles Factory: Advantages and disadvantages of reconstruction for
African Americans
 Written By: Max Weber
 Url: http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/writing/advantages-and-
disadvantages-of-reconstruction-for-african-americans.html
 Summary: In this article is talks about how the life of African Americans
socially, economically and politically were more negatively changed than
positively. It points out how the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim crow laws
were cause of the reconstruction and made the life of African Americans
dangerous as violent actions would be taken to ad Ricans because of these
things.

4. Quote/Evaluation
 Quote: “As a result of Reconstruction, the life of an average African
American changed socially, economically, and politically. Definitely, there
have been some improvements, but the negative changes have
outweighed the positive one”
 Evaluation: This source is not a very credible one, as some of these are true
the person that wrote this is not a credible source as any one can just write
an articles on this site with out having to have certain credentials.

5. Introducing Reconstruction
 URL:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/reconstruction/2017/10/the_reconstructi
on_era_and_its_failure_is_the_subject_of_our_new_slate_academy.html
 Author: Jamelle Bouie Summary: This articles talk about how the
reconstruction period was time of experiments to see how things worked
and play out. It talks about how each state varied on how they went about
their experiments and how in the south these experiments were usually
corrupted by violence and hateful acts

6. Quotes/Evaluation
 Quote: “Above all, freed people needed sustained defense from white
people who fought to recreate or imitate the relations of slavery. The
anger, bitterness, fear and resentment of white southerners was the
greatest obstacle to a a truly peaceful settlement”
 Evaluation: This source is credible because it was written by Jamelle Bouie
whom is a political correspondent for slate magazine and a political analyst
for CBCS news

7. Reconstruction Period: Goals, Successes and failures
 Author: Study.com (Alexandra Lutz)
 Url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGNq2qDU-0
 Summary: In this video Alexandra Lutz goes over the pros and cons of the
reconstruction, she highlights by the retirement of infrastructure, the
confederacy was destroyed, unified the Nation, outlawed slavery and
extended suffrage. It also spoke on the cons such as the rise of the KKK,
inexperienced leaders in government, and southerner were uncooperative.

8. Quotes/Evaluation
 Quote: “despite these many achievements reconstruction faced
tremendous challenges many of them but not all of them because of white
resistance”
 Evaluation: This video is a credible source as it a YouTube channel
dedicated to research and facts on topic to educate viewers.

9. The Failure of Reconstruction
 Author: The History Channel
 URL: http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
 Summary: In This Article the History channels talks about each set of
reconstruction aspects and what they did from the emancipation,
presidential, and racial reconstructions.

10. Quote/Evaluation
 Quote: “n February 1869, Congress approved the 15th Amendment
(adopted in 1870), which guaranteed that a citizen’s right to vote would
not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.”
 Evaluation: This is a credible source because it is written by the History
channel which is a company and television show that is dedicated in
history education.

11. Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course Us History #22
 Author: Crash Course (John Green)
 URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowsS7pMApI
 Summary: In this video is goes over Abraham Lincolns plants to unify the
country, the election of 1876 and how it left the nation divided and the
rights African Americans revived out of the reconstruction and how they
were taken away and the violent acts directed towards them.

12. Quote/Evaluation
 Quote: “White southerners could not accept African Americans exercising
basic civil rights, holding office or voting”
 Evaluation: This is a credible source because it’s a education channel with a
company that produces education videos on YouTube for free.

13. US History.org-Reconstruction
 Author: U.S History.org
 URL: http://www.ushistory.org/us/35.asp
 Summary: In this article it talks about the 2amednemnts that were added
and the one that was abolished, the 14th and 15th that were added and the
13th that was abolished which was the abolishment of slavery. It also goes
on about elections and how congressional elections led radical republicans
to power which caused more problems since they wanted to punish the
south.

14. Quote/Evaluation
 Quote “his important struggle was waged by radical northerners who
wanted to punish the South and Southerners who desperately wanted to
preserve their way of life.”
 Evaluation: This is a creditable source as it is and.org site and not a .com as
well as this site is only written by the organization and not just anybody
can write an article on it.

15. Reconstruction: Success and Failure
 Author: Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia
University
 URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfff_dV71w
 Summary: The prof talks about the lack of rights the African Americans
really had and how these just flat out failed for African Americans but
worked in favor of white men. He also talked about the struggles of
agriculture because of the abolishment of slavery and how it went down
hill because if this.

16. Quote/Evaluation
 Quote: “the former slaves as we all know were not granted access to land
or any real protection to violence”
 Evaluation: This is a creditable source since its is coming from a professor
of history at Colombia university

17. Work Cited
 URLhttp://articlesfactory.com/articles/writing/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-reconstruction-for-african-americans.html
 Website Title Advantages and Disadvantages of Reconstruction for African Americans
 Date Accessed December 05, 2017
 URLhttp://www.ushistory.org/us/35.asp
 Website Titleushistory.org
 Article TitleReconstruction
 Date AccessedDecember 05, 2017
 URLhttp://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
 Website TitleHistory.com
 Publication Year2009
 Article TitleReconstruction
 Date AccessedDecember 05, 2017

18. Work Cited
 URLhttp://grabpage.info/t/www.slate.com/authors.jamelle_bouie.html
 Website TitleJamelle Bouie - http://www.slate.com/authors.jamelle_bouie.html
 Date AccessedDecember 05, 2017
 URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfff_dV71w
 Website TitleYouTube
 Article TitleMOOC | Reconstruction: Success and Failure | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1865-1890 | 3.9.1
 Date PublishedMay 11, 2015
 Date AccessedDecember 05, 2017
 URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowsS7pMApI
 Website TitleYouTube
 Article TitleReconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22
 Date PublishedJuly 18, 2013
 Date AccessedDecember 05, 2017
 URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGNq2qDU-0
 Website TitleYouTube
 Article TitleReconstruction Period: Goals, Successes and Failures
 Date PublishedDecember 31, 2013
 Date AccessedDecember 05, 2017