The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history.
Johnson\'s plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former Confederacy and allowed repressive measures such as the "black codes," would ultimately lead to his impea.
Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South.
It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else.
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history