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Topic Three: Social and Political Development in the South in the Period of the Reconstruction Programme

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The reconstruction programme that was inaugurated at the end of the civil war had far-reaching implications for both blacks and whites. In the south, there developed two groups, which were…

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Topic Two: The Era of Reconstruction 1865 – 1877

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There were two conflicting reconstruction programmes after the American civil war. These were: (1). The Presidential Conservative or Lincoln Reconstruction Programme and (2). The Radical or Congressional Reconstruction Programme. The…

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