8. What was Reconstruction? a. To make sure former slaves have equal rights
b. To help former slaves after the military left the South in 1877
c. To stop war from the south again
d. To help everyone in the south after the war

A

Explanation:

The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans. Presidential Reconstruction, from 1865 to 1867, required little of the former Confederate states and leaders. Radical Reconstruction attempted to give African Americans full equality.

d: their own individual powers within the new goverment

photos creat an ovveral image of the civil war