Interesting Facts about the Reconstruction
- White Southerners who joined the Republican Party and helped with the Reconstruction were called scalawags.
- The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into five military districts ran by the army.
- President Andrew Johnson granted pardons to many Confederate leaders.
What happens during Reconstruction?
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
What was life like during Reconstruction?
During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families. Out of the conflicts on the plantations, new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery.
