The legal challenges contribute to the decline of Reconstruction when President Lincoln announced that there is a plan for reconstructing the Confederate states which are already under the Union control. He proposed to excuse the Confederate who took a pledge to support the Union.
<span>The Bonus Army was the name given to Veterans who
asked the government for early we-related payments. It was an army of 43,000
marchers who gathered in Washington D.C. in 1932. They demanded cash-payment
redemption for their service certificates. The assembly was led by Walter W.
Waters, a former army sergeant.</span>
