1865-1877. After the civil war, while Abraham Lincoln is in control.?

Question

This are opinion questions:

How would you make sure blacks are treated equally in the south?

How would you help former slaves get some land, education and jobs?


During 1865-1877.
What would you do?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln was assasinated in 1865.

Answer 2

During the time of reconstruction...

How would I make sure blacks are treated equally in the south?

I personally don't think you should target this question of just the south. Many of the black people headed north with the idea that they would be able to get land and jobs. However, the vast majority were disappointed because the most of the northerners didn't want them there. Many headed back south. So from your question I am guessing that the south was the only place that had prejudices against the former slaves. Not true.If anything, the former slaves were more at home in the south. Do people really think the yankees didn't own slaves at all? Or because the north use slavery as propaganda for the war that the blacks were well received when they were freed? This leads into my answer to the second question...

How would I help former slaves get some land, education and jobs?

I would do just like my ancestors did. And before eyebrows are raised, I have it documented through letters, church documents, and census records. I would give them the home they resided in, and the land it around it. I would pay them for the services they were already given. The slaves my ancestors owned, were freed. They chose to stay because they were treated like family. They also took my family's surname, as they didn't have one. They went to church with them as a family. The slave children also received the same education as the family did, so when they were grown and free, they were able to move on with their lives to their choosing. It is documented that they stayed and worked at the farm and lumber mill for several generations.
It is a preconcieved notion that all slaves were treated badly, and once they gained their freedom, they all ran away from the heathen white people that were so cruel to them. Again, NOT true. Knowing who I am as a person today, would like to think I could have done more back then. It's easy to say I would have done this and I would have done that. I truly think everyone is created equal and everyone has equal rights. During the time of reconstruction, the south as a whole was dirt poor.

But alas, no matter what our good intentions are now, for what we would do then, it does not change history. I am proud to be southern, and proud of my heritage.

Answer 3

Since Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 you're really talking about Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant. Take a look at what Johnson and Grant actually did to help the former slaves - what helped and what didn't?. What would you have done differently to ensure and to ease their transition to a free status in society? What help do you think they would have needed? Free land and farm animals? Probably as most people were farmers in the 1860's and 1870's. Federal money to start a trade (like blacksmith or saddle maker)? Education would give them a firm foundation - how would you have guaranteed them a free education? How would you have controlled the white population of the South and their attitudes - how would you have re-educated the whites because there were a lot of hard feelings against former slaves then?

Answer 4

This is an opinion question so I'll just assume you know that Lincoln died only 6 days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. My suggestion would be expensive, I'm afraid.

The first job is to re-establish the southern states on some kind of economic footing. The war has damaged a lot of property, and since we are representing the victors, we're going to have to fix what we broke.

Using engineers and foremen with a lot of experience in Railroads, we would begin to rebuild the rail lines. We can employ a large number of unemployed men, both white and black. At the beginning the crews would be segregated, but gradually, individuals would show particular promise in the work, and these people would be introduced into mixed crews organically, as needed when that talent was needed. Gradually, the engineers and foremen will be replaced by people moving up the line based on their skills. If someone doesn't like the idea that a former slave is better at bossing the crew he's working on than he would be, then there's today's pay, good luck finding a new job.

Naturally, there is going to be resentment, but if handled in small groups, in individual crews, the transition would be better than if we sent the Army down there to force people to get along.

Next, we start planting. There are former slaves who have been doing this their whole lives and they know cotton, rice and tobacco agriculture. These people can move quickly into management positions on plantations operated by the Interior Department. This property would have been seized in court cases probably from ex-Confederate officers who were unable to pay their taxes or whose property was confiscated for treason. Gradually,. as this land produces and brings in revenue, the property can be subdivided and parceled out to the people doing the work.

Education can be done in the evenings, for people on the job. Other schools can be established through the colleges at first, sending graduates, even third year students south to teach. As time goes on, promising pupils would emerge, and these individuals can be educated in the North, at government expense, with an agreement that they will return to their communities to take over the schools. As this base of teachers grows, colleges can be founded in the south to assist locals, regardless of race with training of an academic, agricultural, medical, or mechanical nature.

Policing will have to be handled by the military at first, this is, after all, occupied territory. It would be preferable, not just from the point of view of the veterans, who had probably spent more time in that blue coat than they ever wanted, but because they wouldn't have developed personal animosity toward Southerners during the war. Of course, some combat veterans will be needed, and these must be supervised closely by noncoms who are experienced, but self-disciplined. All soldiers acting in this capacity should be held personally responsible to the Chief of Staff for their conduct as men and as soldiers (one thing I think MacArthur handled right in Japan).

Expensive I know, but I think it has possibilities.

Answer 5

the yank Civil conflict began in 1861, after 11 Southern states seceded from the u . s . a . (by way of subject concerns of states rights and slavery) and shaped their very own u . s ., the accomplice States of united statesa.. quickly after, the 1st photos of the conflict have been fired in citadel Sumter, South Carolina, a US citadel which the Confederates captured. Up till 1863, the Confederates gained many of the battles. In 1863, the Confederates 2d optimal-score ordinary Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson replaced into killed by utilising friendly hearth. quickly after, the tide of the conflict replaced, the turning factor being at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On April 9, 1865, accomplice ordinary and commander Robert E. Lee unconditionally surrendered his adult males to Union ordinary Ulysses S. furnish at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, to that end ending the conflict.

Answer 6

A. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 so your question is not relevant.