19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country.-1865-1877- president Lincoln and Johnson wanted to go easy on the south, it changed in the 1866 election- 13th,14th and 15th amendments passed, 15th gave african american males the right to vote- Most african americans after slavery moved to the north- Southern goverments taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"- Reconstruction ended in 1877 with the Compromise of 1877
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