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In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. ... The end of the Civil War found the nation without a settled Reconstruction policy.
About one-third increase to the size of the United States. The states of Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah and some parts of New Mexico and the Gadsden purchase completes the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. This land is from Mexico acquired by the United States.
