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Radical Reconstruction-1865-1877
• Split South into five military district controlled by US Army
• 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments passed• Freedmen’s Bureau set up to help former
slaves• Southern governments taken over by
“carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”• Rebuilt south socially, politically and
physically
Effects of Reconstruction?