My understanding of the Reconstrution era was given to me by the concets and events that occured after the war. For example the tenth percent act provided any person of any state to vote and make an oath of loyalty to the govenment. I belive that was the first step to reconstruct the United States as one union.
However, congress role during the reconstruction era was to povide citizen rights and give eguality to all US citizens. The Radical rebublicans were very active in the legislative branch; therefor, succeeded in freeing African American slaves by passing the 13th amendment, yet even though the were free by law there were still issues regarding segregation. Some African Americans were segrigated to the point that when accused of a crime they were sentence to death, According to the Colored People of Massachusetts, " Negroes guilty of no crime except the color of there skin and a disire to exercise the rights of their american Citizenship were buchered like dogs"(47). the Recustruction era did not solve hate crimes, and racist crimes againts the African American citizens.
Thus, the three branches of government the exicutive branch, judicial branch, and the leguslative branch had to compromise in order to estaplish a new form of peace in the souther states and the intire nation due too the consequences of the civil war.
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