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This 5 page paper discusses the time period immediately following the Civil War called the Reconstruction Period. Pros and Cons and discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike the Civil War which left nearly six hundred thousand men dead and at least half of that wounded or irreparably damaged,
the casualties of the new kinds of civil wars were the taxpayers and the groups of peoples that the constitution sought to protect; whose only circumstance was that they resided
in the South. Such is the case with that period of time known as the Reconstruction Era. The student should note that in some respects the Civil War never ended,
it just changed clothes and the social reforms that were attempted fell far short of the intended mark. The devastation of the countryside in the South did not end with
the signing of the Treaty, as most were led to believe. In fact, most people believe that after the treaty was signed, America became more united than it had ever
been. Guns were laid aside and men went home to their families, but in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms,
which never materialized. For a good while after the war, the South was divided into military zones and the citizens lived basically under house arrest, but these are the sorts
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent soldiers who had the best interests of the slaves at
heart. Wrong on all counts. Secondly, history books tend to show the Rebel army as being wealthy Plantation owners who wanted to keep slavery in full force. They would be
wrong on that count as well. In fact, the war had never fully been about slavery, but other factors. Slavery, in essence, was a secondary issue. Finally, on March 2,
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