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.
lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
Any credit mistake can be serious. One is not greater than the other.
The most well know extremist group during reconstruction was the Klu Klux Klan or the KKK.
Which former Confederate state had the most blacks holding office 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.
when the south was divided into 5 districts
Americans lose interest in reconstruction in the laste 1870s because conservatives had regained control the south.
Most Southern Democrats supported President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
After the US Civil War, the US Government had the task of reuniting the Southern States that had joined the Confederacy back into the United States. There was controversy over this most serious problem. Many leaders worked on the "Reconstruction"the South.
In the book "Bud, Not Buddy," Bud says the most serious mistake you can make in the library is to call a librarian "ma'am" or "sir" because it offends them. Bud believes it's important to learn the librarian's name and address them by their proper title.
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