Reconstruction Era

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The South's economy was ruined. The war had taken place on Southern land, ruining all of the farmland. And since the South had put all of their eggs in the farming basket, they were doomed.

I believe it was 1877

the Radical Republicans in Congress

The Civil War

1865-77 was the dates of reconstruction.

In the United States, a Scalawag was a Southern white who joined the Republican party in the ex-Confederate South during Reconstruction. They formed a coalition with Freedmen (blacks who were former slaves) and Northern newcomers (called Carpetbaggers) to take control of their state and local governments. Two of the most prominent scalawags were General James Longstreet (Robert E. Lee's top general), and Joseph E. Brown, the wartime governor of Georgia. Those who had not supported the Confederacy were eligible to take the "ironclad oath," as required by the Reconstruction laws in 1867 to vote or hold office. In the 1870s, many switched from the Republican Party to the conservative-Democrat coalition, called the Redeemers, which defeated and replaced all the state Republican regimes by 1877. See Wikipedia online about reconstruction

A major area of disagreement between Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans was that Lincoln wanted to forgive and reintegrate the South back into the Union as painlessly and smoothly as possible while restricting the rights of freed slaves, whereas the Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South as harshly as possible and grant full citizenship rights to freed slaves. After Lincoln's assassination, the Radical Republicans went on to pass a string of laws that would grant voting rights to freedmen, restrict any whites associated with the Confederacy from holding public office, create the South's first public school system, and provide charitable institutions like hospitals and asylums.

The Southern States were to organise conventions which had to amend their own constitutions so as to conform them with the Constitution of the United States, including the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

President Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction offered pardon and amnesty to participants in the rebellion who pledged loyalty to the Union. Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in April of 1865.

Most Southern whites viewed the Reconstruction Era as a Union occupation of their territory. Wounds were slow to heal and whenever Southern white hate groups had the chance they burned down Black churches and their homes as well. The most frightening thing was when hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan kidnapped Blacks and hanged them. It was a horrible time.

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President Grant was active in the Reconstruction Era. He intervened in several Southern states to protect African Americans and the electoral process. He sent troops to Alabama to prevent racial violence. Grant's most extensive operation was to arrest more than 600 members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Sharecroppers were the group in the South least likely to prosper after the US Civil War. In addition many former wealthy plantation owners had enemies within the Radical Republican Party. Added to these groups were Southern families that had lost the heads of their households due to death and disease during the war.

The end of the US's Reconstruction Era saw the Federal government retreat from taking an interest in Southern affairs. This resulted in the white Southern leaders reestablishing the white political power structure.

The Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups used violence and intimidation to keep Blacks from voting or participating in the social and political aspects of the Reconstruct Era and beyond. They caused many deaths and despite laws against their activities they remained a threat to freedom and well being of all citizens in the South that were trying to make a new start after the war. The Klan burned down Black churches, lynched Blacks with no real cause other than hate, and intimidated white people who did not agree with their violence.

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The Reconstruct era that followed the US Civil War was nothing short of a disaster. The Radicals in the US Congress wanted to punish the South. And, on the other hand, white hate groups began to control the social and political systems of the former Confederate states. The US finally gave up on fixing the South and looked westward for new opportunities.

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The North gave the South funds to rebuild the farms and helped Freed men to have small plots of land in which to farm. The North passed laws to protect the rights of all, including Blacks, however, the white supremacist groups were more interested in regaining their political and social status at the expense of former slaves. The 14th and 15th amendments were passed to help Blacks attain equality however, groups like the Ku Klux Klan aborted these by using terror tactics or special laws to prevent Blacks from voting. The old cotton crop funds the South sold to Europe now had to compete with cotton sources from Egypt or India.

The rebuilding of the US after the Civil War was called the "Reconstruction Period".

The former Confederacy had to deal with the Union Army stationed in the South, and carpetbaggers & scalawags who took government jobs for profit.

This period of the post-war years was known as the Reconstruction.