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In this time the KKK was formed to keep former slaves from leaving and to terrorize them. Southern planters began to charge rent and limited movement.
Jefferson Davis, former Mississippi senator
slaves and former slaves
An important difference between congressional Reconstruction and presidential Reconstruction is the level of power and authority given to the federal government. Congressional Reconstruction, led by Radical Republicans, sought to assert strong federal control over the South to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans. In contrast, presidential Reconstruction, led by President Andrew Johnson, favored a more lenient approach with the states having greater control over their own affairs and offering amnesty to former Confederates.
his grant of amnesty to former Confederate soldiers
Reconstruction; in 1877, the US began removing Federal troops/administrators from the former Confederacy.
The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.
Because ending Reconstruction meant reintegrating the former rebellious Confederate states into the United States on a full and equal basis, and ending occupation of these states by Federal troops. Ending Reconstruction meant the removal of all political disabilities imposed on the 11 southern states that had formed the Confederacy.
Herschel Johnson (a former Confederate soldier) and Alexander Stephens (former vice president of the Confederacy)
The Reconstruction Act divided former Confederacy (not including Tennessee) into five military districts. President Andrew Johnson vetoed the act ,though, on march 2 1867.
The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.
The Reconstruction Act , passed by the Congress in March 1867.
The former states of the Confederacy had a huge negative view of the US's Reconstruction plans for the South. They believed that the US was getting "even" with them for the cause of the US Civil War.Wherever possible, Southerners evaded laws and regulations of the Reconstruction Era.
Reconstruction refers to the re-building of the United States into one country.
the Reconstruction Era has two uses; the first covers the entire nation in the period 1865-1877 following theCivil War; the second one, used in this article, covers the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, with the reconstruction of state and society in the former Confederacy. Three amendments to the Constitution affected the entire nation. In the different states, Reconstruction began and ended at different times; federal Reconstruction policies were finally abandoned with the Compromise of 1877.[1]Reconstruction policies were debated in the North when the war began, and commenced in earnest after the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863. Reconstruction policies were implemented when a Confederate state came under the control of the Union Army
The government became dominated by Republicans who took a hard line toward the states of the former Confederacy: e.g., occupying those states with Federal troops and denying the vote to persons who had supported the Confederacy.
In this time the KKK was formed to keep former slaves from leaving and to terrorize them. Southern planters began to charge rent and limited movement.