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This 4 page paper discusses the failure of Reconstruction with regard to the migration West, urban industrialization and immigration issues. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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freed slaves establish themselves in what was a strange new reality. But Reconstruction turned out to be a failure: the Constitution might have been amended to make blacks citizens, free
them and give them the right to vote, but the South was filled with hate and not ready to deal fairly with its black citizens. This paper considers the relationship
between the failed Reconstruction period and Western migration, immigration issues and the industrialization of major urban areas. Discussion Western Migration: Great animosity existed between North and South and Reconciliation, which
was supposed to heal that breach, was "beyond the ability of the United States to put into practice" (Dray, 2009, p. 73).1 African Americans had even been elected to Congress
in the wars aftermath, but they were powerless to make the changes so desperately needed; there were four million former slaves in the south at the end of the war
and their future was bleak (Dray, 2009). At first exhilarated by freedom and the right to vote, they now "looked on with dread as the tide began to turn. In
the interest of reconciling differing factions, laws that had been passed to protect them were being undone" (Dray, 2009, p. 73). The Ku Klux Klan continued its reign of terror,
and the rest of the country, wearied by four years of war and sick of the "seemingly endless difficulties in the South," began to ignore the plight of the freedmen
(Dray, 2009, p. 73). Sensing that they were in danger, thousands of free blacks left the South and began a great migration to the West, which they called the "Exoduster
movement," settling mostly in Kansas which, with its history of fighting slavery, seemed like a haven for them (Dray, 2009). "In the decade ending in 1880 the black population of
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