The Reconstruction is a period of time after the civil war from the year 1865 to 1877. Reconstruction was a movement that wanted to bring the secession states back to the union and guarantee freedom to the freed slaves.

There were three presidents, presiding over the reconstruction Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S Grant, and Rutherford B Hayes. Andrew Johnson was a southerner and more of a moderate during the reconstruction highly disliked by the republicans for his moderate way of reconstruction. Ulysses S Grant was a staunch republican who enforces strict measures for the integration of the south and the freeing of slaves. Rutherford B Hayes was president at the end of the reconstruction when it wasn’t popular anymore, so he ended it.

Three Amendments were passed that ensured black people freedom from slavery and other freedoms such as the freedom to vote. The Reconstruction was enforced by the army that was given the right to protect black people’s freedoms by the Enforcement Acts that were passed by Congress.

The Republicans were the extreme staunch hardliners that want to immediately equalize black and white freedom. The democrats were the other extreme of the republicans they wanted to hold up that white people are a superior race to the black people, the democrats were highly against the reconstruction and used violence and laws to stop the reconstruction.

At the end of the reconstruction not all the freedoms of the black people were upheld in the south but it caused greater freedom the black people had never felt before in America.