The Reconstruction of the United States after the Civil War. Radical reconstruction vs. presidential reconstruction. The affects on blacks. Compromise of 1877.

Your plantation and house is burnt, fields scourged, money is worthless, lost hopes, and this is how the confederates were reintroduced into the Union after the Civil War. The United States introduces the Reconstruction period as a time of rebuilding the American image as a truly equal country. From Amendments, to Reconstructions, to the South finding its new image, the United States follows these steps to create the both successful and failed restoration. New concepts …

…efforts to assure civil rights were totally abandoned; therefore, both of these show how the possibility of an extreme success was possible, but not achieved. Work Cited: 1. Du Bois, W.E Burghardt. Black Reconstruction in America. New York: Russell and Russell, 1935. 2. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction after the Civil War. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. 3. "Reconstruction." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2005 Encyclopaedia Britannica Online School Edition. 13 Dec. 2005 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9062908>