When you here that term is usually refers WWII and the Nazi's. Concentration camps were basically huge "prisons" or barracks where the Nazi regime placed people deemed undesirable to the Aryan race. It was were a place where these people were labeled by numbers and all there possessions were taken away. There was very little food, and poor sanitary conditions. 11 million people were killed in these camps. 6 million Jews were the greatest number killed. The other 5 million consisted of other types of people that the Nazi's considered undesirable- such as Roma Gypsies, persons with disabilities, homosexuals.
After major Union victories at the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln began preparing his plan for Reconstruction to reunify the North and South after the war’s end. Because Lincoln believed that the South had never legally seceded from the Union, his plan for Reconstruction was based on forgiveness. He thus issued the Proclamation Of Amnesty And Reconstruction in 1863 to announce his intention to reunite the once-united states. Lincoln hoped that the proclamation would rally northern support for the war and persuade weary Confederate soldiers to surrender.
