reconstruction #10

The Reconstruction Era is the common name for the period in United States history which covers the post-Civil War era in the entire United States between 1865 and 1877.

"Reconstruction" is a term that refers to the policies implemented between 1863 and 1877 when the nation was focused on winning the Civil War, abolishing slavery, defeating the Confederacy, reconstructing the nation and amending the US Constitution. Reconstruction policies were debated in the North as soon as the war began, and commenced in earnest after the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863. The federal occupation of major parts of southern states allowed the formation of new, racially integrated state governments. President Abraham Lincoln was the major policymaker until his assassination in April 1865. Reconstruction began in each state as soon as federal troops controlled most of the state.

The period of federal control ended at different times in different states, with the Compromise of 1877 seeing the collapse of the last three Republican state governments in the South. While 1877 is the usual date given for the end of Reconstruction, some historians extend the era to the 1890s.[1] Reconstruction was followed in the South by domination by the Democratic Party and the enactment of Jim Crow laws, grandfather clauses and similar measures. The bitterness and repercussions from the heated conflicts of the era lasted well into the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States

This brief summary of the Civil War and the Resconstruction era has should me that it is important to reconstruct what other have destroyed for reason they thought were agreeable at the moment, i think it was important to reconstruct because if it were never put back together no one would live in the south because it would look like a third world country. I think it went bad because this could have been evidence or some type of historic and educational value to the future generations.