Reconstruction was and is considered to be a failure because in the end it did not help the free blacks. It was considered to be the governments way of helping but failed at its goal. Still the black free men did not have any land, any money, or had any major rights. So in total all Reconstruction did was help rebuild land.

The Civil War was caused by many different reasons such as whether slaves should be free. Who should get the new territory and what it would be used for. The South wanted to be treated better and many different stupid leaders. Of course there are a lot of reasons yet to be named on what was the cause of the Civil War. But these are so of the important reasons.

John Brown

John Brown was crazy. He believed that God told him (just like many other people in history) to free the slaves. And he decided to go on a violent crusade he killed and chopped of the heads off of five slaveholders. As said before this guy was nuts. On October 16.1859, he led 21 men on a raid at the federal arsenal at Harpers ferry, Virginia. Within 36 hours of the attack most of Brown's men had been killed or captured. John Brown was latered captured himself and hanged. The meaning of this is that John Brown took a stand for something he belived in. He provided a spark before the Civil War started.