Describe reconstructino in the south with a few paragraphs?

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Reconstruction was the process by which the states returned to full status!. It took place in four stages, which varied by state!. Tennessee and the border states were not affected!. First came the governments appointed by President Andrew Johnson that lasted 1865-66!. The Freedman's Bureau was active, helping refugees, setting up employment contracts for Freedmen, and setting up courts and schools for the Freedmen!. Second came rule by the U!.S!. Army, which held elections that included all Freedmen but excluded over 10,000 Confederate leaders!. Third was "Radical Reconstruction" or "Black Reconstruction" in which a Republican coalition governed the state, comprising a coalition of Freedmen, Scalawags (native whites) and Carpetbaggers (migrants from the North)!. Violent resistance by the Ku Klux Klan and related groups was suppressed by President Ulysses S!. Grant and the vigorous use of federal courts and soldiers in 1868-70!. The Reconstruction governments spent large sums on railroad subsidies and schools, but quadrupled taxes and set off a tax revolt among conservatives!. Stage four was reached by 1876 as the conservative coalition, called Redeemers, had won political control of all the states except South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana!. The disputed presidential election of 1876 hinged on those three violently contested states!. The outcome was the Compromise of 1877 whereby the Republican Rutherford Hayes became president and all federal troops were withdrawn from the South, leading to the immediate collapse of the last Republican state governments!.

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Paragraphs!? To a lifelong Southerner, it's encapsulated in one word:"Carpetbaggers"!.
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In United States history, carpetbaggers was the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877!. They formed a coalition with freedmen (freed slaves), and scalawags (southern whites who supported Reconstruction) in the Republican Party!. Together they politically controlled former Confederate states for varying periods, 1867–1877!.

The term carpetbaggers was used to describe the white northern Republican politicians who came South, arriving with their travel carpetbags!. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South!. Although the term is still an insult in common usage, in histories and reference works it is now used without derogatory intent!.Www@QuestionHome@Com