Help with Reconstruction DBQ

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The most controversial issue in American history (slavery) had finally been resolved. The slaves were now free from the chains of their masters. They had rights, they had a trial by jury, they could vote. But once again the masters stepped in, hindering the rights of blacks everywhere. Blacks were blocked from voting by both the planter aristocracy’s laws and their guns and ropes. The blacks’ potential political support was negated by the old masters’ votes and force. It seemed the only way to truly enfranchise former slaves was to disenfranchise their former masters by using military reconstruction.
There were three main stands taken on the issue of true enfranchisement of former slaves during Reconstruction. A naïve view, a pragmatic view, and a obstructing view. The naïve view is reflected in both documents D and F. In document D Frederick Douglass believed that people could live in peace in the South if they only cooperated. If both whites and blacks could vote then it would not be such a controversial issue, but take away the Confederate vote and resentment would build. Essentially, his was the Freeport Doctrine of Reconstruction. Leave it to the people to solve. William Dickinson’s approach in document F is much the same to Douglass’s in that he believes that through voting equality would come peace and happiness. These popular sovereignty-like naïve views of Reconstruction were proven wrong over time as former masters and confederates threatened and lynched voting blacks.
Unfortunately for the South, Northern pragmatism was synonymous with military reconstruction after the Civil War. The 14th amendment (document H), which also secured the rights of former slaves, and document I officially turned the South into five military districts and began the military reconstruction of the South. This idea was touted by many others before the amendment and reconstruction acts were passed, specifically in documents A, C, and E. In document A Thaddeus Stevens, as with the rest of the radical republicans, wanted revenge on the South and proposed military reconstruction to teach the South a lesson. Document C expresses a need for military reconstruction. The “convention of Negroes” believes, quite presciently, that without the support of the Federal government in the South blacks would be persecuted, their rights would become non –existent. Document C disregards the theoretical views and takes a truly pragmatic view of the post Civil War period. The Committee on Reconstruction believed that regardless of whether the South had legally seceded or not, they were to be punished, punished by the Federal government’s military reconstruction of the South.
The last view, underrepresented in the documents, is that of most of the white South. Document G is incredibly biased and bitter. Richard Taylor disparages Thaddeus Stevens and all of his plans of Reconstruction. He claims that the North fears the potential power of the South resulting in the North’s manipulation of blacks to win elections. Though the radical Republicans in the North may have used manipulation of new black voters to win elections, it was not so conspicuous and consequential.
In conclusion, military reconstruction of the South was needed to disenfranchise the old masters. Only when the masters could not control the politics would blacks truly flourish under enfranchisement. This was proven by the withdrawal of troops from the South and the end of military reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. As the troops left, the rights of former slaves left with them.

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