Reconstruction After The Civil War

After the American Civil War in 1865 the United States entered a period called the Era of Reconstruction. The Civil War left the South in shambles, economically, infrastructurally, and socially. Therefore, the responsibility of repairing the South fell on the United States government. The physical damage of the war was the first to be addressed. The government was not only repairing physical damage, but economic damage, too. The Civil War destroyed the South’s economy, with many plantations and farms being consumed by the conflict. Consequently, there was a push to industrialize the South to the level of the North.
During this era the United States government had to devise a plan by which former Confederate States could be readmitted to the