RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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Reconstruction
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Progressive Era
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Gilded Age
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Urbanization
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Detailed explanation-1: -In December, President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.
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: -Abraham Lincoln announced the first comprehensive program for Reconstruction, the Ten Percent Plan. Under it, when one-tenth of a state’s prewar voters took an oath of loyalty, they could establish a new state government.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Union did a lot to help the South during the Reconstruction. They rebuilt roads, got farms running again, and built schools for poor and black children. Eventually the economy in the South began to recover. Some northerners moved to the South during the Reconstruction to try and make money off of the rebuilding.