USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as
A
plan to fix the damage to the White House
B
desire to rebuild the southern states
C
desire to rebuild the country quickly (hugs)
D
desire to punish those southerners responsible for war
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Presidential Reconstruction represented a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill-feelings following the war. This was the opinion of the new President Andrew Johnson, but Congress was in no mood to let the former Confederate states come back into the nation so easily and quickly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Reconstruction Era lasted from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877. Its main focus was on bringing the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The end of the Civil War found the nation without a settled Reconstruction policy. In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these later received individual pardons), and authorized them to create new governments.

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