The President's Plan for Reconstruction
For more than four million African Americans living in the Southern United States, the end of the Civil War (1861–65) brought the freedom they had...
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First Reconstruction Act of 1867
Enacted by U.S. Congress, March 2, 1867
Reprinted on About Texas: Texas State Library and Archives Commission (Web site)
Congress devises a plan for remaking Southern ...
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The President's Plan for Reconstruction