After the Civil War, the Southern states tried to pursue
the goal of restoration. Meanwhile, the national government tried to force them towards
reconstruction.
During the time that Reconstruction was
going on (up to 1877), the states were following reconstruction to a greater or lesser
degree. The governments that were kept in power by the Army were interested in
reconstruction while everyone else (more or less) was trying to prevent
it.
Once Reconstruction ended, the whole South turned
towards restoration and tried to get back as close as possible to how things had been
before the war.
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