The 12 year-time period after the Civil War (1865-1867), also know as Reconstruction, marked the time of progress for African Americans' legal rights. Although the major goals (reuniting the Confederate and Union states and granting blacks civil rights) of the Radical Republicans reconstruction plans succeeded, they weren't completed to their full potential, thus resulting in blacks still at a disadvantage socially and economically. Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, and the shady methods …showed first 75 words of 1272 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1272 total…Laws, the Ku Klux Klan, and the several methods to prevent African Americans from voting made Reconstruction a stigma and embarrassment to the American Heritage and in no way radical. Though reconstruction was an attempt to improve America's society for the better, it was not completed to its full potential. Thus, in the end, "radical" Reconstruction was in no way radical because it truly marked the time of a weak government, extreme racism, and corruption.