Civil War Dbq

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Despite the war being over there was still tension, and the nation was as divided as ever. The southern democrats saw a lot of policies as a way to punish the south. The southern states were still economically crushed from the war which embittered them further after their loss. While the in government there was disagreement as well between the president and the Radical Republicans. President Andrew Johnson and congress at the time did not agree on civil rights for freed slaves and how the south should be governed. The fact that the government at it's highest level still was not in agreement in this, shows just how far reaching the fracture was. The splintered government is what caused reconstruction to not be very effective initially.

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