RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.
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were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.
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were too easy on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.
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were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -There were two different approaches to Reconstruction. Presidential Reconstruction was the approach that promoted more leniency towards the South regarding plans for readmission to the Union. Congressional Reconstruction blamed the South and wanted retribution for causing the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Radical Republicans were a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction. They were led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives and Charles Sumner in the Senate.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the years immediately following the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson clashed repeatedly with the Republican-controlled Congress over reconstruction of the defeated South. Johnson vetoed legislation that Congress passed to protect the rights of those who had been freed from slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first of several bills to define the terms of congressional Reconstruction, it divided former Confederate states other than Tennessee into five military districts and placed them under the command of former Union generals.