- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Reconstruction conventions
- Creator:
- Justice, George
- Date of Original:
- 2006-08-10
- Subject:
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia
Congresses and conventions--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Reconstruction conventions. Like other Southern states not readmitted to the Union prior to the end of the Civil War (1861-65), Georgia had to adopt a new constitution under the rules of Reconstruction. In fact, the state went through this process twice, as attempts to reunite the Union during and after the Civil War became a prolonged two-part process that divided the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. U.S. president Andrew Johnson's policies, known as Presidential Reconstruction, prevailed until the beginning of Congressional Reconstruction in 1867. During Congressional Reconstruction, Radical Republicans in both the House and Senate seized control of the program from the executive branch and implemented much more rigid terms for bringing the former Confederate states back into the Union, as well as for the military occupation of the South.
GSE identifier: SS8H6 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/reconstruction-conventions/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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