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= = Reconstruction Reconstruction is rebuilding the south and bringing the southern states back into the union. There are three plans for reconstruction which were Presidential, Congressional and Southern reconstruction. There were also three amendments made after the Civil War; the thirteenth, fourteenth and the fifteenth. The thirteenth abolished slavery, the fourteenth protected African American right and the fifteenth stated that a citizens right to vote would not be declined or denied due to race, color or previous condition of servitude. Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president of the united states from 1865-1869. He was also the first president to be impeached. Andrew was impeached for violating federal law. He violated the Tenure of the Office Act which forbade the president to remove a federal office holder without the consent or approval of the Senate. There were several ends to reconstruction which were that the republicans got taken over by democrats, and the KKK was diminished. The program was duplimented by the Federal Government between 1865 and 1877 to rebuild the South. It also destroyed 2/3 of the South’s shipping, industries and 9,000 miles of railroad. Northerners were sick and tired of the efforts they had to put into reconstruction.