RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
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Citizens were forced to keep soldiers in their homes
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Louisiana was the first state to be accepted back into the United States.
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Louisiana’s Reconstruction was easier and safer because of the military presence.
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Louisiana was used as a testing ground for policies designed to bring rebel states back into the nation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -White mobs killed three state legislators during these turbulent times. The Colfax Riot was the bloodiest single instance of racial violence in the Reconstruction era in all of the United States. Disputes over the 1872 election results had produced dual governments at all levels of politics in Louisiana.
Detailed explanation-2: -From an economic standpoint, the Civil War and Reconstruction proved a setback from which the state has yet to fully recover. With the destruction of slavery in Louisiana came the transition to free labor and a reappraisal of the relationship between black and white Louisianans.
Detailed explanation-3: -The First Reconstruction Act, shown here, was passed March 2, 1867. It established military rule in the former Confederate states until they were formally readmitted to the Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.