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8 de nov. de 2015 · How did the Civil War and Reconstruction affect the Southern economy and society? This article examines the causes and consequences of the region's poverty, decline, and recovery in the post-war era.
- Emancipation and Reconstruction
- Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
- Radical Reconstruction
- Reconstruction Comes to An End
At the outset of the Civil War, to the dismay of the more radical abolitionists in the North, President Abraham Lincoln did not make abolition of slaverya goal of the Union war effort. To do so, he feared, would drive the border slave states still loyal to the Union into the Confederacy and anger more conservative northerners. By the summer of 1862...
At the end of May 1865, President Andrew Johnsonannounced his plans for Reconstruction, which reflected both his staunch Unionism and his firm belief in states’ rights. In Johnson’s view, the southern states had never given up their right to govern themselves, and the federal government had no right to determine voting requirements or other questio...
After northern voters rejected Johnson’s policies in the congressional elections in late 1866, Radical Republicans in Congress took firm hold of Reconstruction in the South. The following March, again over Johnson’s veto, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which temporarily divided the South into five military districts and outlined ho...
After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority. Though federal legislation passed during...
16 de sept. de 2024 · Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
Learn how the Civil War transformed the Northern and Southern economies, and how Reconstruction affected the post-war recovery. Explore the changes in agriculture, industry, finance, and inflation in the aftermath of the war.
Emancipation was the single most important economic, social, and political outcome of the war. Freedom empowered African Americans in the South to rebuild families, make contracts, hold property, and move freely for the first time.
Other federal agencies, such as the Freedmen’s Bureau, also assisted Black Americans build businesses, churches, and schools; own land and cultivate crops; and more generally establish cultural and economic autonomy.
Explore the economic and social changes in the South after the Civil War and Reconstruction through statistical maps, images and background information. Learn how the war and the reconstruction affected the region's economy, population, education, politics and more.
