DBQ: Reconstruction Assignment

Prompt: In the absence of constitutional guidelines, the president and Congress struggled over how best to reconstruct the Union. The fight was colored by a debate over how far the federal government should go to secure equality and civil rights for the four million African-Americans freed by the war.
Using the documents and your knowledge of history, analyze the ways in which political and social developments between 1860 and 1877 resulted in a revolution.

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