Radical Reconstruction

Part I of Essay
I believe that the Radical Republican's Reconstruction was unsuccessful. First of all, under the Reconstruction, the South was divided into 5 military territories, which was placed under a general to oversee the new constitutions. Since the South was occupied by the milit ....

Part II of Essay
.... a man was still permitted to vote provided that his father or grandfather had been eligible to do so. It didn't apply to the blacks because blacks didn't have right to vote before the Reconstruction. Then in 1876 election, Hayes won because of the secret compromise set up by the Southern Democrats. The compromise was to make Hayes win the election to withdraw the federal troops, to get the federal money and for a conservative Southerner in the cabinet. Thus, the federal troops were withdrawn after the election. Eventually, the blacks start ....