Reconstruction 1865-1877
A detailed Summary of Reconstruction 1865-1877
Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War in which many
changes were undergone in the north and the south in order to restore the
union. The south had suffered the destruction of their factories, railroads, the
now worthless Confederate money, and mainly their slave-worked farms.
The north suffered mainly from the political turmoil that was left in the
aftermath of the war. There were four phases of reconstruction consisting of
Lincoln's Phase, Johnson's Phase, the Radical Republican Phase, and the
While Lincoln did not live long enough to actually go through
reconstruction, he lived only five days after the war, he was the one who
started it. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was the beginning of
Reconstruction in the U.S. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all of the
slaves in the Confederate States still in rebellion but did not free those of the
border states. The Proclamation did not actually free the slaves in the south,
as there was no way Lincoln could do this without military force, but it did
help strengthen the moral of the troops in the Union army by giving them
something better to fight for. On the other hand, some Union tro

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