After the US Civil War was over?

Answer 1

With regards to the US Civil War, the plans of US President Lincoln for reuniting the United States when the war was over, were cut short by his terrible assassination in April of 1865. The Reconstruction Era now began and there was a dispute between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans regarding reconstruction. Whereas it seemed that the late President Lincoln was going to do his best to make the reunification as fair and as speedy as possible, neither President Johnson nor the Republicans in Congress, could duplicate Lincoln's ideas inasmuch as the nation after the war was drifting into opposing sections of political thought on reconstruction. Johnson's ideas were not as " revengeful" as the main body of Republicans.

Answer 2

When the civil war was over the south had to be rebuilt and loyalty to the union given. The south was in ruins, the railways were torn up, farm land burned and were battle fields, men were dead, wounded or missing. Plantations were burned out and the economy was in ruins. Money was no good and inflation was bad. Carpetbaggers came to take advantage of the problems and to steal from the defeated south. The government had to plan for reconstruction of the south.