This ten-page undergraduate paper examines failures of the Union during the Reconstruction era. Measures such as Special Field Order #15 from General Sherman, the 10% proposal of 1863, and the Black Codes are discussed, as are issues such as the changed economic reality of agriculture without slave labor, and the failure of the North to change attitudes in the South with regards to Blacks and the Union in general. 10 pgs. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
