Reconstruction in Early America

This essay will describe the events that occurred following the Civil War in a period known as Reconstruction. In the South, during this period of time many people suffered from the great amount of property damage done to such things as farms, factories, railroads and several other things that citizens depended on to keep their economy strong. Some of these economic hardships included destruction of the credit system and worthless Confederate money. Though statistics in …

…Democrats(including many ex-Confederates) were gradually winning home rule. Whites regained total control by 1877 when troops were removed. Restrictions were put on blacks political rights and eventually laws were passed that discriminated against blacks, these were called "Jim Crow Laws". The Ku Klux Klan founded in 1866 to keep blacks from voting, had been controlled by the army, but now was free of that control(though it actually reached it's peak of power in the 1920's).