Most freed slaves - called freedmen - had no education, no money, and owned no land or farming tools. So the most immediate problem facing the president and leaders in Congress was getting food and other help to the freed slaves.
Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or…
