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Reconstruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reconstruction may refer to: •Reconstruction era of the United States, the period after the Civil War, when economy and social structures were rebuilt. •Ministry of Reconstruction, a UK government de...
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Reconstruction era of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Benjamin Butler, notorious Union General in the Civil War and advocate of rights for African Americans, elected to Congress as a radical member of ... Former Union General Ulysses S. Grant becomes president. Although allied with the Radical Republicans in Congress he does not provide strong leadership for Reconstruction.
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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.
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In the South plantations and homes were burned during the war. The fields were left unattended. The Confederate money was worthless. The Southerners felt very beaten. Because of this Lincoln wanted to make it easy for the Southern states to rejoin ... On April 14, 1865 only five days after the Confederate army surrendered,
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So, the record of reconstruction in the South was mixed. Many southerners believe, even today, that reconstruction was a bitter time of defeat. But others now say this period after the Civil War was a necessary step in creating a different kind of South from the one which had existed before.
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