>>512551757
>to the point that we call that era of american history The Reconstruction.
Reconstruction was horrific for the South, and the primary reason why Southerners still have such a beef about the war.
If the war had just ended with the South not being able to leave the union or keep using slaves, that would have been that and Southerners would have been agreeable. Southerners knew slavery was quickly becoming obsolete anyway and would be gone soon regardless. And that's how it seemed like things would go at the end of the war. Gentlemen who fought it out and settled their differences and then shook hands. But then that faggot Lincoln got shot and all the yankees wanted blood.
Andrew Johnson was pretty based and reasonable, but the radical republican yankees and Grant wanted to punish the South with a harsh military occupation, seizing lands and other goods, and putting niggers, yankee carpetbaggers, and scalawags in charge of everything.