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What Are The Three Stages Of Reconstruction

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Reconstruction is what the time between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the Presidential Crisis of 1877 is commonly called in America. Through these twelve years reconstruction went through three phases.Presidential Reconstruction which was characterized by Johnson’s plan to forgive and restore power to the ex-Confederates. This portion of Reconstruction disgusted many freedmen and Northerners alike. It ended when former Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens was elected to represent Georgia in Congress. Republicans outraged by this began to take Reconstruction into their own hands. With increased Congressional initiative, Congressional(or Radical as some called it) Reconstruction began. It initially started with heavy opposition from President …show more content…

Then came the final chapter of Reconstruction, which was its ultimate decline and end. Reconstruction in its beginning was made to reintegrate the South into the Union and to free the former slaves. From there, it impacted northerners and southerners as it went on. Some of the immediate impacts of Reconstruction were the Civil Rights Acts passed in Congress. Acts such as the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment, defined and established rights for freedmen. While increases in funding to the Freedmen’s Bureau allowed them to become better educated. With these events to their advantage they were able to form communities, schools, businesses and hold offices in the South. Though as the freedmen made these gains many ex-Confederates contested it through sharecropping, political opposition, and straight out violence against freedmen. The sharecropping system occurred primarily because Reconstruction didn’t consider economic independence. Northerners mainly wanted the South to go back to being a cash crop system. They planned to remake the old plantation system with wage labor instead of

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