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The reasons for the Reconstruction were: restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and enactment of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed slaves. Reconstruction was divided into three phases: Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction and Radical or Congressional Reconstruction. The summary is: Reconstruction was in the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
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