Reconstruction: a partial success and a partial failureAfter the end of the Civil War in 1865, it was followed by an era known as Reconstruction which lasted until 1877 , with the aim of rebuilding the country. nation. Lincoln was president at the beginning of this era, until his assassination led his vice president, Andrew Johnson, to replace him in 1865. Johnson faced many problems such as the reunification of the union and the unknown status of the former -slaves. , while compromising between the principles of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. After the 1868 election, Ulysses S. Grant, a former war hero with no political experience, became the country's new president, but was implicated in numerous acts of corruption. Reconstruction succeeded in reintegrating the Southern states into the Union through the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln and Johnson, but was mostly a failure due to the continuation of discriminatory policies against African Americans, such as the black codes, Jim Crow laws and sharecropping, as well as widespread corruption. of the Northern elite and the Panic of 1873. Although Lincoln and Johnson both adopted Reconstruction plans that helped reunify the North and South, Congress was ultimately not satisfied and passed its own plan. Lincoln adopted a rather lenient Reconstruction plan because, in his view, the Confederate States had never seceded from the Union. The Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation included a ten percent plan, which would "recognize them as citizens of the States within which they acted and assist them in obtaining in all respects the full recognition and enjoyment of Statehood, even though the people who did so were but a tenth of the original voters of their states" (W...... middle of paper ...... black struggles due to inequitable laws such as the black codes , Jim Crow laws and sharecropping, and the fact that the economic depression of 1873 and common acts of corruption caused the economy to struggle. Southern states were reunified with northern states through Reconstruction programs. Lincoln and Johnson, even though Congress did not fully support them and created their own Reconstruction plan, was supposed to truly give black people the rights they deserved, but continued acts of discrimination by southerners, including the Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and sharecropping ended up depriving them of these rights. Finally, the negative effects of corruption and the Panic of 1873 led to economic failure during Reconstruction. These issues concern our society because people still face discrimination and corruption in our economy still exists today..