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Reconstruction is generally divided into three phases: Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction and Radical or Congressional Reconstruction, which ended with the Compromise of 1877, when the U.S. government pulled the last of its troops from southern states, ending the Reconstruction era.

Interesting Facts about the Reconstruction White Southerners who joined the Republican Party and helped with the Reconstruction were called scalawags. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into five military districts ran by the army. President Andrew Johnson granted pardons to many Confederate leaders.

Guiding Questions To what extent did Reconstruction forge a “more perfect union”? Did Reconstruction extend or undermine democracy in the United States? Why did Black Codes and Jim Crow exist? How did local and regional differences affect the ways in which Reconstruction was implemented?

Reconstruction encompassed three major initiatives: restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and enactment of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed slaves.

AP US History 🇺🇸 The three big questions of Reconstruction were: What do we do with the former Confederates? What do we do with the formerly enslaved people? Who should be in charge of deciding #1 & #2: Congress or the President?

Three Reconstruction amendments were designed to end slavery, allow all Americans to coexist, and protect the rights of the newly freed slaves.

Three Reconstruction amendments were designed to end slavery, allow all Americans to coexist, and protect the rights of the newly freed slaves.

But there were specific reasons why Reconstruction came to an end and those had to do with violence, corruption, race, factionalism and the election of 1876.