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This 7-page paper focuses on the U.S. Civil War and its Reconstruction, and offers recommendations and potential legislation for how things could have been different. Also discussed are reasons for the War itself and where Reconstruction went wrong. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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States. Though the slaves were freed following that war, and though there was a great deal of lip service paid to reunifying the fractured North and South, in truth, the
following Reconstruction was a bitter, violent aftermath. Some historians, in fact, could say that Reconstruction and its problems (part of which gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan) were even
worse than the Civil War itself. With the Civil War, people knew what enemy they were battling. But during Reconstruction, the "enemy front" was fairly wide and diverse.
Is there anything that could have led Reconstruction down a different, less violent path? Possibly, if Lincoln had still been alive, and if his successor, Andrew
Johnson, had been more neutral (rather than more sympathetic to the South), things might have been different. Part of the problem, in looking
at the event close to 150 years later, was that because the U.S. had never before experienced a war among its own people, the rebuilding effort afterwards created a large
number of questions (Colchin, 1997). Few people were sure who was responsible for what, and as a result, things got out of hand. In
this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for the period, recommendations that perhaps would not have led to quite
as much conflict as what actually happened. Reconstruction - a Brief Overview To better understand the challenges impacting Reconstruction, its important to understand what
led to the war in the first place. Though many point out that the "cause" of the Civil War involved slavery and freedom of the slaves, that was only a
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