Friday, 25 April 2014

How did Southerners feel about Reconstruction?

Feelings
aboutvaried to some degree in the South. Overall, it was greatly disliked and reviled by white
southerners who felt that their defeat in the Civil War was being rubbed in their faces through
further occupation by the federal army. Most of these southerners also resented the new freedoms
that the former slaves had just acquired. They did as much as they could to keep former slaves
subjugated. This involved instituting Balck Codes, keeping them economically dependant on
whites, and violently intimidating them, sometimes even murdering them.


While most white southerners hated Reconstruction, many had some mixed feelings about it. Before
the end of the Civil War, many Confederates feared that they would be severely punished as
traitors should they be defeated. Under Presidential Reconstruction, they found that these fears
were unneeded as most were pardoned and had their property rights (minus their slaves) restored.
While they still resented the conditions of their...

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