"Malice toward none" -- Presidential Reconstruction begins -- Radical Republicans take control of Congress -- Race riots -- Congressional Reconstruction -- Congress impeaches the president -- Trial in the Senate -- The right to vote -- The Freedmen's Bureau -- Carpetbaggers -- The end of Reconstruction -- Timeline -- Glossary.
Summary
With malice toward none; and charity for all - Those were the words of reconciliation that Abraham Lincoln preached as he tried to reunite a nation at the end of the American Civil War.