Reconstruction

The Civil War was a time when the nation was damaged yet working to bring the nation to a time where every person in the nation would be treated equally. It was also a time when the nation was working to come together. Reconstruction was the time period of rebuilding after the Civil War. It was a time to rebuild all of the damaged land and to bring the nation together as one. Although twenty percent of the population was down in the south, taxes were increasing and the property values were lower, the nation was slowly recovering. Scalawags were joining the Republican party and Carpetbaggers were moving from the north to the south. They helped bring the nation together by letting the north and the south do things as one. This means teachers and ministers were starting new industries in the south and people were moving to the north to help with the production of goods in the north.

During Reconstruction this helped the nation politically. It helped in politics by having an amendment giving African Americans the right to be free. It also helped with amendments giving the African Americans the right of citizenship and the right to vote. This increased the number of votes in the south because now the African Americans would be counted as a regular vote like everyone else in the nation. Now everyone in the nation was beginning to have a say-so in what should happen with and for the nation.