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**Effects of Reconstruction**

Reconstruction had many successes and failures. For now there is more failures than successes. Most importantly the slaves were freed. Overall the effects of Reconstruction are very important.

Reconstruction didn't have many successes but did have some. One would be that the Union was restored of all money. The battles that were fought in the North were fixed up. Another would be the 13th amendment was passed to end slavery. Also, the 14th and 15th amendments established legal protection of equality. The first statewide public school systems in the south were established as well as hospitals, asylums, and penitentiaries. Independent black churches were established. There was a modern black community. Finally, the blacks were freed, able to vote, and able to aquire land.

There was many failures in Reconstruction. One would be the South and blacks still had economic problems. Most blacks still worked for whites by picking cotton and doing the same labor they did as slaves. None of the Republican presidential candidates ever got a majority of the votes in any southern states. There was still a lot of discrimination in the South and had no racial harmony.

The discrimination got so bad that whites would refuse to share political power with any blacks. Blacks lost their rights they gained from the civil war. On the plus side there was about four million slaves freed. The Southern states violated the rights of blacks, and the 14th and 15th amendments were broken very often.

The effects of Reconstruction were quite simple. The 13th amendment abolished slavery completely. The 14th and 15th amendment established legal protection of equality but were often broken. The South was very bitter towards the Northerns and blacks. The South's economy became dependent on cotton. One big success was that blacks now had the right to vote.