RECONSTRUCTION Americas greatest failure Black codes the black codes varied from each states and changed to make the as loopholes to make sure that a white man can pass the test but a american american might not because they didn't go to school 40 ACRES AND A MULE Most black families were given 40 acres of land and one mule so they could start theirs lives and start making money for their families but not every family got it and they got nothing ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S AND 10 % PLAN Lincoln's plan was for the states to come back into the union they had to have at least 10% of the states populations votes had to be for a north view KKK the KKK was started to make black people not want to vote and they ended up killing a bunch of black people in the process and wanted to scare and it scared Passing of the 13, 14, 15 amendments making and passing these amendments was a failure because the south just kept finding legal loopholes like the black codes and the south found more loophole then anything