Reconstruction was not successful as it resulted in the implementation of the Black Codes, the formation of the Klu Klux Klan, and the failure of the Freedmen's Bureau. The Civil War destroyed the South, and as a reunited country, the government was tasked with developing a strategy to reconnect the North and South and rebuild the lands destroyed by the battles. President Abraham Lincoln introduced a method of reconstruction, but upon his death the idea was abandoned. Lincoln's vice president, Andrew Johnson, presented another theory that was also rejected. To begin reconstruction work in 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau was created as a social agency that educated free blacks and promised to give all former slaves forty acres of ex-Confederate land. However, this promise was not kept, and Johnson let the Bureau expire in 1872. Congress finally passed the Reconstruction Act on March 2, 1867. The law divided the South into five military districts headed by a general of the Union and watched over by Union soldiers. . It also required that all states joining the party allow free black men to vote and enjoy the rights guaranteed to them by the Fourteenth Amendment. However, not all states that joined the Union met these conditions. The reconstruction was a failure because it resulted in the black codes. The Black Codes were a series of laws intended to regulate the affairs of emancipated slaves. They were created to strengthen a lower class workforce that would help rebuild the economy destroyed by the Civil War. The codes prohibited African Americans from owning firearms and imposed harsh penalties for minor offenses. Any freedman, African American or mulatto was liable to be "hired by the sheri...... middle of paper ... because this did not guarantee the rights of African Americans, resulting in whites terrorized Africans. Americans and freed slaves were forced to rely on white farmers for housing and work. While Reconstruction aimed to create a tolerant society, it actually resulted in an unbalanced society that forced African Americans to rely heavily on whites. in the eyes of the law and indentured servitude, such as slavery, for minor offenses, Reconstruction did not create a racially accepting society and it created racist groups, failed laws, and government agencies. Web. May 12, 2014. Mississippi Code Black. Section 5 of the criminal law. May 11, 2014. “Constitution of the United States.” Amendment 14. KKK Documentary. 2014