Why did many Southerners resist the Recontruction in the south in the 1860's?

Question

i need some help! please

Answer 1

Many Southerners believed that the North had invoked/imposed Abuse of Power, Limited Rights for the South, and Military Rule upon the South (frankly, they didn't like it):

In the latter half of the 1860s, Congress passed a series of acts designed to address the question of rights, as well as how the Southern states would be governed. These acts included the act creating the Freedmen's Bureau, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and several Reconstruction Acts. The Reconstruction Acts established military rule over Southern states until new governments could be formed. They also limited some former Confederate officials' and military officers' rights to vote and to run for public office. (However, the latter provisions were only temporary and soon rescinded for almost all of those affected by them.) Meanwhile, the Reconstruction acts gave former male slaves the right to vote and hold public office.

Congress also passed two amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment made African-Americans citizens and protected citizens from discriminatory state laws. Southern states were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before being readmitted to the union. The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote.

Answer 2

good question. most of them had created a way of life was to change what they knew. if slaves were taken away, they would have to find help and pay them. that would be losing money to them. Southern state governments quickly enacted the restrictive "black codes". They gave freedmen more rights than free blacks had before the war, but they still had only a limited set of second-class civil rights, and no voting rights. Southern plantation owners feared extensive black vagrancy would mean loss of the essential labor force. Many Southern whites feared equality with Southern blacks. Two states had full fledged Black Codes, Mississippi and South Carolina. Among other provisions, they stringently limited blacks' ability to control their own employment. For instance, blacks who were convicted of vagrancy who could not pay the fine could be hired out to an employer, often his former master. The Black codes outraged northern opinion. They had limited effect because the Freedman's Bureau protected the blacks legally.They were overthrown by the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Answer 3

Some it was about the end of slavery, but it was also more about State's rights and economics. A lot of Southerns did not want to be "slaves" to the Northern States. Also, there were a lot at the top that did not like losing their way of life. They saw a lot of poorer whites doing business with blacks and this upset them. They also believed in a smaller Federal Government. They resented the Federal Government controlling their Legislatures. Once Reconstruction ended, they were able to put some these whites in their place as well as the black population.

Answer 4

Because it wasn't really Reconstruction.. it was the pain and suffering being caused by the Union to punish the South for the war and it didn't exactly make the people of the South, love the Yankees.

Answer 5

with blacks free citizens the southern economy was pretty much wiped out. it was dependent on the free slave labor. also you have the patriotic reason of many southerners who refused to accept the south had lost. there were a lot of skirmishes and rebellions the army put down after the war. you also have plain old racism. southern whites lived in raw fear of revenge from freed slaves.


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Answer 6

wrong wrong wrong
Reconstruction was as bad for the South as the Civil War itself.
Carpet Baggers came down and charged enormous prices for daily items and services and whats more they were given preferential treatment by the government.
The same civilians who had nothing to do with the war were the same that suffered the most in its aftermath.

Answer 7

The south were basically mainly less equal not all though and they did not want stuff like the civil rights to get in the way.