Term Papers on Was Reconstruction A Success?

Term Paper Title	Was Reconstruction A Success?
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"Was Reconstruction a Success?"

     To decide whether or not Reconstruction was a success you must first define what success actually means.  Webster’s Dictionary says that success is a favorable or desired outcome.  Although Reconstruction only lasted approximately ten years, it was a favorable and desired outcome.  There are many reasons that prove this, but there are three which are very important, even today.  The public school system is a significant part of today, as well as our religion and churches.  The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were all very important pieces of the Constitution which were developed either from or due to Reconstruction.
     "Over 90 percent of the South’s adult African American population was illiterate in 1860."(Faragher, 527)  Blacks access to education became a part of the meaning of freedom, to themselves, because so many Southern states had prohibited education for slaves.  African Americans, in rural areas, created large amounts of "wayside schools."  Outside organizations, such as American Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau, were the main contributors of educational aid in African American communities.  Most black schools were built from the ground up by African Americans, in the mid-1860’s.  To cover the costs of building the schoolhouses, buying supplies, and paying teachers the necessary money was raised or donated by blacks.  Labor for construction was donated by blacks, and teachers room and board was offered by black families.  African American’s want for self-improvement and education was validated by the increased spread of schools.  "By 1869 the Freedmen’s Bureau was supervising nearly 3,000 schools serving over 150,000 students throughout the South.  Over half the roughly 3,300 teachers in these schools were African Americans, many of whom had been free before the Civil War."(Faragher, 527)
     After freedom African Americans needed some sort of social institution in which they could count on to help them.  "The church became this institution because the ministers...

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