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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