Watch Reconstruction of the United States

Reconstruction in United States history, refers both to the period after the Civil War when the States of the breakaway Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America, and to the process by which this was accomplished. Northern moderates and radicals alike agreed that for the war to be declared a victory, the Confederacy and slavery had to be truly dead.

Reconstruction of the United States is a 1998 documentary with a runtime of 27 minutes.