The Legacy Of The Civil War And Reconstruction Era

Shakayla OdomCivil War & Reconstruction The legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction era? December 7, 2022 After the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment released all slaves in the United States, regardless of where they were, and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states (Blight, 2019). As a result, the majority of black people in the South now faced the same challenge that black people in the North had to deal with: being a free people in a hostile environment. Houston Hartsfield Holloway, a freedman, wrote that both white people and people of color did not understand how to have a free person of color around them. The country was still unprepared to cope with the issue of full citizenship for its newly freed black population after the Emancipation Proclamation, two further years of war, service by African American troops, and the destruction of the Confederacy (Cox, 2019).Congress's Reconstruction program, which ran from 1866 to 1877, was designed to restructure the Southern states after the Civil War, provide a pathway for their readmission to the Union, and specify how whites and