Reconstruction and the force

After the Civil War many towns and families were destroyed. Lives were lost, devastation had taken over. After the war was over, amendments were passed to try and create a more stable type of government. Amendment 13 states that slavery must be abolished. Amendment 14 gives them the right to become a citizen. After these two things take place you have to let them vote, so they made voting rights Amendment number 15. The south disagreed greatly with this promise. So they passed laws that were called the Jim Code Laws, or in other words the “Black Codes.” These codes state that blacks must be able to read in order to vote. If you could do this, you also had to prove that you could write. There where other things such as pole tax, and your grandfather could not be a slave as well. Having these codes allowed the southerners to gain what they wanted, because most blacks could not read, or write. Johnson tried to bring back the South into the nation to enforce these new amendments that had be settled, the South was tried very hard to limit most, if not all of the blacks rights.

To be able to preserve a nation you have to come together, and everyone has to work with one another, which the South did not want to do. They were stubborn and wanted their way. There have been many wars in history to cause the exact same stresses this Civil War, and Reconstruction has done. Today we have a war going on right now, destroying families, and towns. People feelings cheated, and lied too, to get only what people want. Our military thought they were doing us a favor for fighting, but we can not force a nation to do what we want. It causes too many problems and makes people way more irascible. Our government today and the technology we have can preserve our nation. We have to all want to do this to be able to start a whole nation together, everyone has to be in on it and or it will not work.