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I say reconstruction was a success. If it wasn't, the world wound't be like this and the south would still be racist and slavery would still be around. Or at least racial discrimination... Also, there were no more wars and no one really got hurt. Plus, look at our standpoint now. It would be even worse if we did the reconstruction now with our new technology. There's no reason for slavery anyway with the new tech.

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Hiram Revels paved the path for other black congressmen and senators. Such as Obama. The 15th amendment helped Hiram Revel because it allowed people the right to vote thus he was able to be voted into congress.

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Passed into law March 2 over the veto of president Johnson. The act applied to all x-confederate states in the south accept Tennessee who had already ratified the 14th amendment. It divided the south into 5 military districts. Enacted because the Radical Republicans were in control of congress. Slaves thought they would be treated better and suppose to have equal rights, including right to vote and some believed blacks shouldn't be free and formed the KKK.

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The Freedmen's Bureau is a federal agency that was set up to help blacks after the Civil War. This is a good example because this man is protecting the black men from the white.