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Civil War Reconstruction Or The Reconstruction Era

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Washington D.C.-The Civil War Reconstruction, or the Reconstruction Era, occurred on January 1, 1863. It was the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union. It lasted from 1863 to 1877. The Civil War Reconstruction damaged the South and it put them to debt. Senator Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis had an alternative to Lincoln’s plan to offer southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion. President Andrew Johnson had a plan for Reconstruction. The Black Codes were passed almared the citizens of America about slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment were proposed during this time regarding slavery and the right to vote.
At the start, the South was in debt from the Civil War. General Braxton

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