RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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Robert E. Lee
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Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Jefferson Davis
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Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the end of the war, what did Lee urge Southerners to do? Lee urged Southerners to accept defeat and reunite as Americans, even though some Southerners wanted to keep fighting.
Detailed explanation-2: -Robert E. Lee: opposed secession, but did not believe the Union should be held together by force. urged Southerners to accept defeat at war’s end and reunite as Americans when some wanted to fight on.
Detailed explanation-3: -Frederick Douglass: Former slave he became a prominent abolitionist and urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union army. Most famous American General of all time. After Appomattox he urged Southerners to accept defeat and unite as Americans again.
Detailed explanation-4: -What four things did Ulysses Grant do during Reconstruction? Urged Southerners to reconcile and rejoin the United States. Served as president of Washington College (Washington & Lee University today).
Detailed explanation-5: -Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate military general, but perhaps his greatest contribution to the United States was his effort to reunite the country following the American Civil War.