WEEK 4 DISCUSSION 2: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE COMPROMISE OF 18772 Week 4 Discussion 2: Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877 The decade that followed the American Civile war tumultuous as the efforts to impose Union control on the already defeated Southern states would face a fierce backlash from vigilante and terrorist organizations that emerged (Corbett et al., 2017). The period of reconstruction was one of the most controversial and turbulent eras in American history, beginning in 1865 and ending in 1877. During this period, attempts were made to redress the inequalities that had been brought about by slavery as well as solving the problems of readmitting the 11 states that had seceded, back to the Union (Foner, 2020). The journey towards Reconstruction began during the civil war when in 1863, President
