ons. In return for this the Radical Republicans had to give up the ideas of the Reconstruction, as well as giving the South back it’s political power to self govern. At this point the Radical Republicans were deserting their struggles for the recently emancipated African Americans. Overall the reconstruction was a temporary gain for African Americans and eventually turned out to be a bust, although it did set the legal basis for events later to come, which did create equal rights for African Americans. Although the Reconstruction failed to achieve most of the goals it set out to accomplish, which was because of the determination of redeemers as well as the resistance from North and South’s, it was a rebirth for the nation as well as for the lives of most African Americans. In the long run, after the Reconstruction was over, things didn’t go totally back to the way it was before, African Americans had more rights than before the Reconstruction. But the hopes and dreams that many blacks thought they finally achieved during the Reconstruction were quickly crushed afterwards. Most importantly, the Reconstruction was the primary event in American History that led to a bigger change in their lives. The Reconstruction had its share of successes, just as it had its share of failures. It was the turning point in American History where life was supposed to start anew. African Americans gained and then lost the right to exercise voting rights, uses of hospitals, to become part of the legal system, to own land, to have political power, the right to a good education, and much more. After Republicans lost interest in supporting African American rights and Democrats regained political and economic control of the South, the racially segregated and capitalist government flourished again. The Reconstruction did, for a short time, transform the South for African Americans, but most rights and benefits gained during that time were lost to...
