After the civil war, there were about four million former slaves freed. The South was greatly damaged by the brutal war, therefore, the southern government set up a reconstruction plan to reinvigorate the society. During the reconstruction, there were great social, economic, and political problems faced by the government. The most direct challenge the president and leader in congress was facing was getting food and other help to the free slaves. Since this vast majority of slaves were working on the farm day and night before and were treated as objects. These freemen had no money, no education, no place to live, nor skill to work. Many of the freemen were facing poverty, hunger and homelessness. Another challenge for the government was …show more content…
In the beginning, those great outbreak of violence was caused by small incidents in the local area. For example, if a black person does not tip his hat to a white person, people would suddenly start shooting each other. During the year of 1865 to 1866. The freedmen's Bureau in Texas has over a thousand murders been registered. For the reconstruction had a great negative impact on the white’s life both economically and politically,many local violent groups such as Ku Klux Klan, White League in Louisiana, the Knight of the White Camicia usted out during the reconstruction. Those groups’ purpose were to obstruct and destroy reconstruction government. They assassinated and intimidated black and white Republican officials, using violence to prevent people from voting. THese violent action brought local freemen a burden of getting daily violence and barrier for the government to …show more content…
The was made many planters, former slaves, and non slaveholding white became really poor. Slaves’ job opportunities are limited because they had no education and could not read or write as a result of the slave code. Often the only skills a freed slaves had was one related to farming. For a long time, no one was able to run farms because the slaves did not know how to run them and the white did not have the money to run them. Thus, there was a huge lost in cash and farm values during 1860 to 1870. The South lost on average about 40% to 50% of cash and farm values. Arkansa, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama lost over 50% farm and cash