After the Civil War, the United States was in a serious state of distress and needed a serious period of reconstruction. The government had to find a way to reintegrate the South back into the country. Doing this meant figuring out how to address southern power in government and merging the economies of the North and South. Finally, the country's biggest problem was integrating the newly freed African-Americans into society. African Americans needed to have …showed first 75 words of 368 total…

…showed last 75 words of 368 total…United States drastically transformed the lives of African Americans in the country, just not all at once. This period of reconstruction took time and effort and is still to this day not fully finished. People in our country are still being treated differently because of their race, but, the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments, and the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education drastically increased the progress of the movement after the Civil War.