The reconstruction was after the Civil War, one of the most important turning points in America's history. There were African Americans in the North and some in the South. However, both sides of The States had the protection of the newly amended 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. These amendments guaranteed citizenship and equality rights, but socially, the African Americans were being discriminated against, first, by the KKK and second, by the republicans. The republicans preffered whites to be in power, and after a period of time the South were able to put African American people back in the Cabinet (by Lincoln's 10% Plan). Many African Americans got by the unequal social equality, while other suffered horrid deaths, and others fled.
