Successes:
- Freedmen's Bureau - educated 200,000 blacks
- 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
- Wasn't too harsh
- Got the Union back together
Failures
- Black Codes
- KKK
- Failure to enforce 14th and 15th amendments (poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause)
- Weak executive branch
- Women still couldn't vote
- Southern whites unhappy! But Southern society wasn't destroyed - it was resurected - went back to the old society pretty much
- Dispute over policy toward South - Congressional vs. Presidential
- Extinguished Republican party from South for about 100 years
