RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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There were no Northerners anywhere in the United States who really wanted the South to be allowed to come back into the Union.
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President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but many of the Southerners refused to release their slaves.
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The South was devastated, and the people struggled to deal with loss, sickness and death.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War. The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is the most likely reason the Southern soldiers’ homes and communities were destroyed when they returned from the Civil War? The fighting during the war had mostly been fought in Southern territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.