Reconstruction

President Lincoln’s assassination was the beginning. Through all the pain and suffering, Of the Civil War ending Came a newfound feeling of equality. President Johnson’s term began, Which started the major Reconstruction Plan, The 14th and 15th amendments were born giving equal rights to every American man. Then, came a newfound feeling of equality. President Ulysses S. Grant was elected in 1869, He promised to protect African-Americans at all times, Now African-Americans of all kinds Could feel, the newfound feeling of equality.