RECONSTRUCTION ERA

Reconstruction Era Essay: Civil War between 1863 and 1877

Reconstruction Era Essay: Civil War between 1863 and 1877

Introduction

A revolution is defined as a sudden, radical, complete, or fundamental change in a society or political organization. During the period of Civil War Reconstruction between 1863 and 1877 the society and politics of the once again united States of America fundamentally changed (Kelly 2011). The socio-economic and political situations of white Southerners and African Americans in the now abolitionist South changed forever. This essay analyses the background to and the events of this period in order to establish to what extent the Reconstruction ...