Reconstruction Reflection Video

    My reflection on the video was shocking: A white 21-year-old went to a church prayed for an hour with black people and then proceeded to open fire on the black people there. This also made researchers go back into history to study how we got here today. A lot of this comes from reconstruction due to the lack of understanding. They talked about the Emancipation Proclamation and how slaves and free blacks joined the union which helped change the tide of the war. Reconstruction is the process where North and South tried to come to terms with the American Civil War. The North and the South both saw reconstruction differently. For the first time in public black men who are intelligent can vote and black people who are veterans can also vote. Shortly after the war, there were ads in the newspaper about blacks. There were also still problems with slaves and blacks even after the war. Lincoln chose a Southern Democrat in 1864 to run with. Lincoln believed that the Civil War started with the planter class in the South. Lots of people including Fredrick Douglass did not like him this also worsened when Fredrick Douglass had to shake hands with him and the president scrunched his face towards him and he was drunk. During the Civil War, a lot of land came into the government. Those who owned $20,000 after the war couldn’t get the land for free and had to buy it. Johnson was trying to keep the black population under control but couldn’t do it due to the court being under recess. Johnson then wanted to give the land back to the Confederates that he had pardoned. Surprisingly some people today are still struggling with this today. Racism is the deepest legacy of racism and is a tremendous boundary to change.