RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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rebuilding the South after the Civil War
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creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
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instituting Black Codes for former slaves
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eliminating the plantation economy in the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Reconstruction era redefined U.S. citizenship and expanded the franchise, changed the relationship between the federal government and the governments of the states, and highlighted the differences between political and economic democracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the Civil War, the South entered a period (lasting from 1865-1877) called Reconstruction, when the federal government oversaw the reconstruction of the government in Southern states.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reconstruction is generally divided into three phases: Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction and Radical or Congressional Reconstruction, which ended with the Compromise of 1877, when the U.S. government pulled the last of its troops from southern states, ending the Reconstruction era.