War had destroyed two thirds of southern shipping and 9000 miles of railroads. it had devoured farmland, farm buildings and farm machinery; work animals and one third of all livestock; bridges, canals, and levees; and thousands of miles of roads. Factories, ports, and cities lay smoldering. the value of southern farm property had plunged 70 percent.
Reconstruction is the period after the Civil War until 1877. It was a period where the South was being punished by the North for starting the Civil War.
Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.
Exoduster. A former slave who left the south after the reconstruction.
The thirteenth through fifteenth amendments are referred to as Reconstruction Amendments. These amendments came about after the Civil War. They were designed to help reconstruct the south after the war.
The South was in worse shape, since they were defeated. Plus there was the Reconstruction Era which penalized the South and burdened them with additional bureaucracy.
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.
Reconstruction was what the period of rebuilding the south was after the civil war.
Andrew Johnson oversaw the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.
Reconstruction is the period after the Civil War until 1877. It was a period where the South was being punished by the North for starting the Civil War.
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The 10 Percent Plan was the title of Lincoln's plan for the South's recovery from from the war.
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The Reconstruction.
It dealt with fixing the South after the Civil War due to the destruction from the fighting.
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South become a part of the Union again.
The Reconstruction Period only happened following the Civil War. The purpose of this period was to rebuild the South after the war essentially caused it's destruction. "Reconstruction" referred to both the physical rebuilding of cities, roads, bridges, etc. damaged or destroyed by the war, and the economic retooling of commercial operations that had previously relied on slave labor. Both were necessary.