Taking care of the people, what ever natural disaster or basically any bad going on they were responsible for it.
Among the other achievements of Reconstruction were the South's first state-funded public school systems, more equitable taxation legislation, laws against racial discrimination in public transport and accommodations and ambitious economic development programs (including aid to railroads and other enterprises).
After the civil war there was a huge surge to rebuild the infrastructure of the U.S. many Americans wanted to move west to escape the horrors of the civil war, which started the race to the west coast (intercontinental railroad)
<span>The government system that has power constitutionally divided between various constituent units an the central government is called federalism. Federalism is really just a mix of lots of different types of government. It combines the general type government with smaller regional governments, but they all work together to make a big political system.</span>