Just after the mid 1800’s the newly unified United States was still going through the reconstruction of their nation after the civil war. While the country was coming together, questions were being raised about the revolutionary changes regarding social and constitutional ideas. A better understanding of whether there were any revolutionary changes as a result of the civil war can be gained by looking at the decisions made regarding state's power or federal power, black rights, and the untold racism at the time as a result of blacks gaining rights. On a political level a revolution occurred but because of the radical rise of racism after the civil war and even the amount of racism today, socially there is still a long way to go with the battle against racism.

During and after the civil war the federal government realized it had to make a change and rule over the state governments. At the end of the secession from the north the government realized that they can not standby and watch the south become its own sovereign country …show more content…
Admittedly we had a lot of social change stated by the government, but the theory of what they said contrasted to the reality of what happened. Towards the end of the civil war the actual process of voting was attempted and petitioned by the people of Nashville and other cities among them, but the first African American to actually vote only happened in 1867 (Documents C and G). Even when Blacks were able to legally vote people in the government still tried as hard as possible to stop them from voting using unfair laws. The laws were that a person could not vote unless there grandfather voted or you had to pay to vote which put blacks at a disposition because very few were wealthy because they had all just gotten out of being slaves and were put to the same jobs except technically they weren’t under