Reconstruction+er

Reconstruction after the Civil War: After the war came to an end with the North being victorious in 1865, Reconstruction began in the United States. President Lincoln didn't want to punish the South, he wanted to reconcile with them. He tried to make a plan to reconcile with them, but the moderates and radicals created a plan of their own called the Wade-Davis Bill that required most white males of a former Confederate state to take an oath to the Union. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Ammendments were added to the Constitution. African Americans gain the right to vote and hold office. It seems as though many good things are going on in the U.S. during this reconstruction time. But eventually some of the Southerners opposed to Reconstruction begin to strike back by using groups such as the KKK. Reconstruction soon begins to end and the former slaves begin to have harder lives again.