US History Notes - Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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US History Notes - Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1863-1877 The Politics of Reconstruction - Civil War killed 600,000 + soldiers, wounded 470,000 + - War destroyed slavery, but not racism - New ?United States? was now a singular, not plural, entity - Federal govt took precedence over individual states - Key issue of Reconstruction: how fed govt would relate with Confed and freed states The Defeated South - By 1865, the South?s most precious commodities, cotton & slaves, no longer valuable - Took a generation for South?s economy to recover from the civil war - 1860 - South = 25% of US?s wealth; 1870 - South = 12% - White southerners hated the idea of emancipation - led to tons of racism in the South Abraham Lincoln?s Plan