Reconstruction comprised three major initiatives: restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and portrayal of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed slaves. President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction—give out in 1863, two years before the war even ended—plotted out the first of these initiatives, his Ten-Percent Plan.
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During the American Revolution the way women were affected depended on location. Those unlucky enough to be the path of Major Ferguson or General Tarleton had their houses burned and if they had not gotten out of the way of their armies, they were killed. Some women went hungry.