RECONSTRUCTION LIMITED EDITION
The War has brought misery for some and freedom for others.
Our streets are devastated, two thirds of our shipping industries and 9000 miles railroad have been dismantled. Farm lands, farm buildings, and farm machinery have been erased. Factories, ports, cities, bridges, and canals are lay smoldered in the streets of our nation.
The loss of life touched virtually every family. The practice of organizing military units with troops from the same town meant that communities no longer have any surviving young men;
all of them have died in the same battle. Of the 3.5 million men who fought in the Civil War, on both sides, 620,000 died. One in ten Confederate soldiers had come from North Carolina. Of the 125,000 North Carolinians who fought for the Confederacy and the 8,000 who joined the Union army, 20,000 died in combat. Another 20,000 succumbed to injuries. Many of the survivors were affected both physically and mentally.
4 million black southerners are freed and start new lives in poor and slow economic regions. Since they are poor they receive food and shelter, however inadequate. Most of the black people are homeless, jobless, and hungry. However, others remained in their plantations or sought new jobs in the west.
Our plantation owners have lost their slave labor worth about 3 billion dollars. In addition, the Captured and Abandoned Property Act of 1863 allowed federal government to seize 100 million dollars in southern plantation and cotton. Because Confederate money became worthless, some farmers couldn’t afford to hire workers, thus they had to sell their property.
Our white laborers are without any jobs because of job competition from freedom. Our poor white families migrated to frontier lands such as Mississippi and Texas to find new opportunities.
Abraham Lincoln has left us one month ago on April 14, 1865, he had done immense amount of things for the reconstruction, and he denied pardons to all confederates military government officials who had killed African
American war prisoners. He permitted each state to create a new constitution after 10 percent of the voters in the State had sworn allegiances. He offered a pardon to any confederate who took an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the federal policy on slavery.
Johnson his former vice President proposed a slight different plan that was more generous after Abraham Lincoln’s death. He pardons southerners who swore allegiances to the Union. He permitted each state to hold a constitutional convention without Lincoln’s 10 percent. He forced states to void secession, abolish slavery, and repudiate the Confederate debt. He also permitted to hold elections and rejoin the Union.
After the Civil War, the country needed to be fixed and rebuilt. A period of Reconstruction followed the war. The reconstruction was important for different reasons, it would allow the nation to find a new United States which would be cleaner and better organized, it would give another chance for the United States to really become united. The last reason is that it would allow the population to find new homes and be able to live in a peaceful area.
The Southerners had many difficulties that it faced; black southerners had economical conflicts because they were without any jobs or shelter. The southern plantation owners had lost immense amount of money because of the Captured Abandoned Act, finally poor white southerners had work problems they lost their job and there was too much competition for jobs.
Freed slaves faced many challenges, they were found out without any shelter, nor job and no family. They looked for their family that they were separated from and they never found them. Slaves in the South still had rules to follow. They had curfew which means they could not gather after sunset, if they were found not working they could be charged a fine or whipped, they had labor contracts which means they had to sign agreements in January to work for the whole year. Black could only buy or rent homes that were in rural areas which meant that they had to work on plantations.
The War has brought misery for some and freedom for others.
Our streets are devastated, two thirds of our shipping industries and 9000 miles railroad have been dismantled. Farm lands, farm buildings, and farm machinery have been erased. Factories, ports, cities, bridges, and canals are lay smoldered in the streets of our nation.
The loss of life touched virtually every family. The practice of organizing military units with troops from the same town meant that communities no longer have any surviving young men;
all of them have died in the same battle. Of the 3.5 million men who fought in the Civil War, on both sides, 620,000 died. One in ten Confederate soldiers had come from North Carolina. Of the 125,000 North Carolinians who fought for the Confederacy and the 8,000 who joined the Union army, 20,000 died in combat. Another 20,000 succumbed to injuries. Many of the survivors were affected both physically and mentally.4 million black southerners are freed and start new lives in poor and slow economic regions. Since they are poor they receive food and shelter, however inadequate. Most of the black people are homeless, jobless, and hungry. However, others remained in their plantations or sought new jobs in the west.
Our plantation owners have lost their slave labor worth about 3 billion dollars. In addition, the Captured and Abandoned Property Act of 1863 allowed federal government to seize 100 million dollars in southern plantation and cotton. Because Confederate money became worthless, some farmers couldn’t afford to hire workers, thus they had to sell their property.
Our white laborers are without any jobs because of job competition from freedom. Our poor white families migrated to frontier lands such as Mississippi and Texas to find new opportunities.
Abraham Lincoln has left us one month ago on April 14, 1865, he had done immense amount of things for the reconstruction, and he denied pardons to all confederates military government officials who had killed African
American war prisoners. He permitted each state to create a new constitution after 10 percent of the voters in the State had sworn allegiances. He offered a pardon to any confederate who took an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the federal policy on slavery.Johnson his former vice President proposed a slight different plan that was more generous after Abraham Lincoln’s death. He pardons southerners who swore allegiances to the Union. He permitted each state to hold a constitutional convention without Lincoln’s 10 percent. He forced states to void secession, abolish slavery, and repudiate the Confederate debt. He also permitted to hold elections and rejoin the Union.
After the Civil War, the country needed to be fixed and rebuilt. A period of Reconstruction followed the war. The reconstruction was important for different reasons, it would allow the nation to find a new United States which would be cleaner and better organized, it would give another chance for the United States to really become united. The last reason is that it would allow the population to find new homes and be able to live in a peaceful area.
The Southerners had many difficulties that it faced; black southerners had economical conflicts because they were without any jobs or shelter. The southern plantation owners had lost immense amount of money because of the Captured Abandoned Act, finally poor white southerners had work problems they lost their job and there was too much competition for jobs.
Freed slaves faced many challenges, they were found out without any shelter, nor job and no family. They looked for their family that they were separated from and they never found them. Slaves in the South still had rules to follow. They had curfew which means they could not gather after sunset, if they were found not working they could be charged a fine or whipped, they had labor contracts which means they had to sign agreements in January to work for the whole year. Black could only buy or rent homes that were in rural areas which meant that they had to work on plantations.
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