Reconstruction After the Civil War

Hey there and welcome back to Heimler’s History. We’ve been going through Unit

5 of the AP U.S. History curriculum and in the last video we ended with the surrender

of the South to the North which brought the Civil War to an end. And in this video

we’re going to look at the process of knitting two regions back together again,

a process which was known as Reconstruction. So if you’re ready to get them brain cows milked,

let’s get to it. So we’re basically aiming at one thing in this video and it is as follows:

Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

Now in order to understand those effects, we need to set the stage first.