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Explain why Reconstruction failed because the North abandoned it.

Explain why Reconstruction failed because the North abandoned it. By: Tatiana, Lina, and Ashley. Thesi s. Legal precedent in the Supreme Court coupled with economic problems in the country led to Reconstruction eventually failing. . Flaws in the 14th and 15th Amendment.

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Explain why Reconstruction failed because the North abandoned it.

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  1. Explain why Reconstruction failed because the North abandoned it. By: Tatiana, Lina, and Ashley

  2. Thesis Legal precedent in the Supreme Court coupled with economic problems in the country led to Reconstruction eventually failing.

  3. Flaws in the 14th and 15th Amendment... ~As the Supreme court started to see flaws in the 14th and 15th Amendments, they started to make decisions that undermined these Amendments. ~ “During the 1870’s, the Court issued a series of decisions that undermined both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.”1 ~In US vs. Cruikshank, Mr. Chief Justice Waite stated in the Court’s decision that “The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; but this adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another. It simply furnishes an additional guaranty against any encroachment by the States upon the fundamental rights which belong to every citizen as a member of society.”2 1. McDougal Littell, "Judicial and Popular Support Fade," in The American(n.p.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005) 2. United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. (1874).

  4. Flaws in the 14th and 15th Amendment… (cont.) ~In the decision of the U.S. vs. Reese case Mr. Chief Justice Waite stated that “Legal disability to vote at any such election, arising from race, color, or previous condition of servitude, is removed by the Fifteenth Amendment, as affirmed in the first section of the Enforcement Act: but the Congress knew full well that cases would arise where the want of other qualifications, if not removed, might prevent the colored citizen from exercising the right of suffrage at such an election”.3 3. United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. (1874).

  5. Panic of 1873 ~“In 1873, the country plunged into a severe economic depression. Distracted by economic problems, Republicans were in no mood to devote further attention to the South.”4 ~“The total financial bloodbath cost the South...some $5.2 billion.”4 -When the North did not want to help the South with their extreme economic problems, the Southern economy, which was a large part of Reconstruction, failed further. 4. Eric Foner, "The Overthrow of Reconstruction," in Give Me Liberty!: An American History, by Eric Roner (NewYork, US: W.W. Norton, 2005)

  6. Bibliography 1. Littell, McDougal. "Judicial and Popular Support Fade." In The American, 397-98.N.p.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 2. United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. (1874). 3.United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. (1874). 4.Foner, Eric. "The Overthrow of Reconstruction." In Give Me Liberty!: An American History, by Eric Roner, 38. New York, US: W.W. Norton, 2005.

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