Reconstruction Act

History Paper 1850-1900: Reconstitution The reconstitution is the process of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861-1865). Since this was the first civil war the United States had experienced, there were a lot of questions dealing with what to do with the South after the defeat of the Confederacy and the overthrow of slavery. The debate of these questions began during the war and continued for decades. This time period was known as the …

…people into citizens, although not entirely successful, was remarkable for its time. Even with unequal freedom being very different from the slavery the society was use to; the free-labor South was neither the South that the blacks wanted nor the South that their former masters wanted either. Despite the overthrow, the Reconstruction left an important legacy: commitment to a republican society based on equality under the law, which remained on the books even when unendorsed.