1. Reconstruction
The Era of Reconstruction following the Civil War was a period marked by an intense struggle to restore a worn-out and devastated society. ... More importantly, the South, for the first time ever, was without an easy profit economy based on slavery. ... To the dismay of many freedmen, President Johnson returned to whites the plantations that the Union Army had given to blacks during the war. ... Tilden, "We have just emerged from one civil war, and it will not do to engage in another civil war it would end in the destruction of free government." ... Despite efforts to reform a devastated nati...
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