Reconstruction in the South: Positive & Negative Effects
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After the Civil War ended, Reconstruction in the South began. Learn about Reconstruction and its two sides, including its positive and negative effects, and review growth in the South. Understand the opportunities that Reconstruction presented for African Americans, but realize that this also led to resentment, violence, backtracking, the Ku Klux Klan, and an oppressive system of sharecropping.
