Americans of African and European descent did not have very good relations during the Civil War. They were a major cause of the Civil War. But did they repair or rebuild this relationship after the war from 1865 to 1900? My opinion would be no. I don't believe that African and European Americans were able to rebuild their relationships right after the Civil War. Even though slavery was eventually gradually abolished, African Americans still faced much discrimination. Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes discriminated against black people. The Ku Klux Klan, in particular, discriminated against black people. Even though the United States government attempted to write laws into the Constitution to protect black people, African Americans were discriminated against in every aspect of life, from housing to employment to education and even access to public toilets! The United States has not simply ignored the black-white problem in America. First, after the Civil War, the United States made it so that states did not have the right to secede. They also focused on wealthy people and northern industry. And for African Americans, the United States abolished slavery and granted citizenship to black people. But the country had to be rebuilt. There were therefore two types of reconstruction. There was a presidential reconstruction and a congressional reconstruction. Presidential Reconstruction included ratifying the 13th Amendment which was to abolish slavery, pardoning the Pledge of Allegiance, pardoning the President's civil servants, temporarily appointed governors, and state constitutional conventions. On the other hand, the reconstruction of the congress......middle of paper......many other things! "The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was undoubtedly to strengthen the absolute standing of both raves before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have had as its object the abolition of the distinction based on color, or to impose a social distinction in relation to color. political quality, or a mixture of the two raves on terms unsatisfactory for one or the other. This is a quote from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held that the two raves must be distinct but equal. But even though the two races were separate, they were still not equal because there were far fewer public restrooms, restaurants, and other things for black people in America. Black people were discriminated against in almost every aspect of life. Jim Crow laws contributed to this discrimination. Jim Crow laws were laws using racial segregation from 1876 to 1965, both at the social and state level..