M02 The Reconstruction Era

M02 The Reconstruction Era

Introduction

Reconstruction after the Civil War, called the U.S. Reconstruction is the period following the Civil War, from 1863 to 1877, which saw the destruction of the slave system of the Confederation, the return of the Southern states in the Union and the failure of the integration of freed African Americans in the legal, political, economic and social development in the old Southern States. In U.S. history, the term reconstruction is meant, first, the historical period after the Civil War between North and South, and secondly, the transformation of the South in the period around in ...