Reconstruction was a period of restructuring the social and political life of the blacks in the South who had victims and witnesses experiences resulting in physical and emotional suffering. During the reconstruction period, there was a drive for racial pride and self-identification in the South. Former slaves were reorganizing heir lives by shedding the names assigned to them by their former masters and choosing new names to assert their newly acquired freedom.
It was "(B) John C. Calhoun" who was not a candidate in the 1824 presidential <span>election, since Calhoun was focused more on state politics and political theory during this time. </span>
