Postbellum Reconstruction:
Immediate Success, Long Term Failure

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Thesis
Both the presidency and Congress passed several reforms to attempt to solve all of these problems, however the progress that was made during Reconstruction was for the most part shot down by the Compromise of 1877.

Outline of the Contents
I. Intro—Thesis
II. Condition of the South Immediately Following the Civil War
III. The Presidential Reconstruction Plan
IV. The Congressional Reconstruction Plan
V. Economic Reform
VI. Social Strife
VII. Conclusion
VIII. Bibliography


When General Lee surrendered to the Union army in the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the period of Reconstruction began. The Civil War had settled the issue of slavery and the question of states' rights, but several problems remained in the torn nation. First, the Union had to be successfully reunited and control of the Southern states' governments had to be nurtured back to the national consensus.......

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Title: Postbellum Reconstruction:
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