![]() ![]() Despite the best efforts of the northern Radical Republicans, Eric Foner’s Reconstruction theory is right in claiming that southern whites were more concerned with re-creating the past than with renovating a new civilization. In Eric Foner’s “The Makings of Radical Reconstruction,” Eric investigates the growing influence of radical Republicans on reconstruction policies. Reconstruction addresses issues such as how the southern states re-join the union, the citizenship of the Confederacy’s leaders, and the legal status of the Black Freedman. ![]() ![]() The term “American reconstruction” refers to the period in American history from 1866 to 1877 when the Confederacy and slavery were both abolished in an attempt to resolve the Civil War’s legacy. ![]()
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