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Compromising with the old Southern aristocracy, allowing them to seize control and pass the Jim Crow legislation that largely negated emancipation of the slaves leaving them little more than poor, second class citizens for the next century. In the end the Civil War was not resolved until the Civil Rights Movement of the late 50s and early 60s succeeded in repealing these Jim Crow Laws that held the Black population down.
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What reconstruction plan was easiest for the south?
lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
Discuss the economicsocial conditions of blacks in the South during Reconstruction?
Most African-Americans in the South made their living as sharecroppers and were poor. Reconstruction protected their right to vote and to seek public office.
What did soldiers do after the Civil War?
Most soldiers went back home to their families and farms. Some went west. A smaller number remained in the Army to occupy the South during Reconstruction.
How long did the South's reconstruction period after the Civil War take?
For the most part, reconstruction was complete within 10 years after end of World War II. However, it was actually decades before all of the bombed buildings and debris was removed. Bombs and other munitions are still found.
What officially ended Reconstruction?
By most accounts, the official end of Reconstruction in the American South (after the Civil War's conclusion in 1865) arrived in 1877. The occasion was provided by the disputed election of Rutherford B. Hayes as the 19th President of the United States: Hayes secured the presidency through an arrangement with Southern congressional leaders, offering to remove Federal military control throughout the South if these leaders would assent to his election.
