Reconstruction After Civil War

After the victory of the union after the Civil War, many things had changed. The fact that the War was over was good news but it left the United States with a new set of problems that were no less challenging than the Civil War itself. The four most important challenges were how the south would rebuild its shattered society and economy after the damage inflicted by the four years of war?, What would be the place in that society of 4 million freed blacks and to what extent was the federal government responsible for helping them to adjust to freedom?, Should the confederacy be treated as states that had never really left the union or as conquered territory subjected to continued military occupation?, and last but not least who had the authority to decide these questions of reconstruction: was it the president or the congress? In addition to that the conflicts between the regional sections, political parties, and economic interests continued beyond the war. For example, republicans in the North wanted to continue the economic progress begun during the war. Meanwhile the south aristocracy still needed cheap labor force to work its plantations. The poeple just received one problem after another.

The victory of the union after the Civil War had given about 4 millions of slaves their
And on history.com it states that in the beginning of 1867, each Republican-controlled government was under the military protection of the U.S. Army until such time as Congress was satisfied that s state had met its Reconstruction requirements. Then the troops had withdrawn. According to John. M SCHMALBACH the period of Republican rule in a southern state lasted from as little as one year (Tennessee) to as much as nine years (Florida), depending on how long it took conservative Democrats to regain