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To Abolish black codes in the south.
During Reconstruction, the federal government, specifically the Union Army and federal officials, enforced the laws in the South. This was done to ensure that the newly implemented policies, such as the Reconstruction Amendments and civil rights laws, were upheld in the region.
A scalawag was a term used during the Reconstruction era in the United States to describe Southern whites who supported the Republican Party and its policies of promoting civil rights and rebuilding the South after the Civil War. They were often seen as traitors by other Southerners who opposed Reconstruction.
Reconstruction was what the period of rebuilding the south was after the civil war.
Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.
Reconstruction was only partially successful for a short time. When reconstruction ended, much of the south returned to its racist ways. It remained for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to complete the work that might have been accomplished with Reconstruction.
During Reconstruction, the South was divided in terms of political allegiance and the treatment of freed slaves. There were factions within the South that supported the Union and embraced the changes brought about by the Reconstruction era, while others vehemently opposed it. Additionally, the South was divided in terms of the treatment of freed slaves, with some areas implementing more progressive policies towards their rights and others perpetuating systems of racial oppression and discrimination.
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The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877, was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South.
Andrew Johnson oversaw the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.
Reconstruction was at the end of the civil war and no civil rights were achieved in this time. In fact groups like the KKK began to make sure the former slaves were threatened and to not try to gain rights. Jim Crow laws were passed to keep people from voting, schools were segregated, and most towns in the south remained divided into white and black sections. It will take another 100 years before the fight for civil rights will take place.
Reconstruction means rebuilding. During the Civil War, much of the South was destroyed. Reconstruction was rebuilding AFTER the war- both physical rebuilding, and rebuilding the government in the former Confederate States.