USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -But, was it successful? President Lincoln’s original goal in the Civil War was to hold the nation together. And in this, the war and Reconstruction were a success. The Confederacy was destroyed for good, and every state that had seceded was readmitted to the Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -Why was the process of rebuilding the South called Radical Reconstruction? It was the “hard” policy demanded by some members of Congress.