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10 pages. There were economic and societal impacts on the South after the Civil War. These were due in part to Presidential Reconstruction and Radical Reconstruction. This paper discusses both and what the differences are, as well as the Freedmen and what happened to them after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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and Radical Reconstruction. This paper discusses both and what the differences are, as well as the Freedmen and what happened to them after the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR When in April of 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox and General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered at Durham, North Carolina ten days
later, the Civil War had effectively ended. The States had not yet formulated a plan, however, on what to do after the war. What was to become of
the South after the war was over? Even the war itself was a controversy. Not everyone understood what they were fighting for. Some felt it was all about
slavery, and others felt it was all about preserving the Union. Some were fighting about the "rights of the states" (U. S. History 2002, PG) while yet others
thought it was more about the governments role in the economy. Whatever the citizens believed, there were no hard and fast rules written down in the form of a treaty
or any other document that had to do with what would happen when the war had ended. There were several different factions and all had their own ideas as
to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say there were some very diverse feelings
about what should be done with the South after the war ended. Some wanted the South severely punished, as if it hadnt already sustained enough losses throughout the war.
But President Lincoln wanted them to re-join the union and become part of the United States again. "He had throughout the war denied that the Southern states were
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