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The 20th Century News

            
            
            
             With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. With new found freedom minorities began to fight for more rights and rightly so; sadly they came to many dead ends. The control given to the government was still in question at both the Federal and State level; As well as how to rebuild the nation and handle the growth and change.
             Things in 1865 and 1866 started looking up for some African Americans with Sherman's Field Order #15 that gave blacks 40 acres and a mule and the Homestead Act. This gave African Americans the ability to have land and work. For other minorities migration to cities to find work seemed more appealing. It turned out to be a hard life for many as finding jobs and residence proved to be very hard. Along with their many difficulties they faced discrimination from many in the south the most well known group was the KKK. Groups such as these ignored the many laws put into to place to prevent such violent discrimination and have an equal nation; Laws such as the Civil Rights Acts, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. Was allowing this part of Reconstruction? Did the efforts to reconstruct really work? I don't think so. .
             For the most part attempts at reconstruction failed, especially for the farmer. With prices down for crops and slavery a thing of the past, many farmers began to rely heavily on tenancy and sharecropping just to stay afloat. Things just kept getting worse for the farmer. On the other hand by the late 1800's other industries were growing. Factories were being built employing many, as well as railroads. The New South was emerging with more jobs; more people were migrating to the towns and cities. The growth seemed to stay in the towns and cities, because urban areas had public school, health care, electricity and telephones and the rural areas did not. Although with travel easier rural areas began to get newspapers and some products from the urban areas, therefore were in some way being influenced by the growing economy.


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