After the great battle of the American Civil War and the Northern victory, a greater battle was yet to take place; reconstruction. Reconstruction after the war was not going to be easy, and it was not. What was the main objective? What to do to ex-confederates? Free blacks? How should this reconstruction take place? Many of these issues have been resolved by the government, but to what extent? The reconstruction could have gone very differently, and that is what I intend to show. I will develop my own Reconstruction policy for the United States after the American Civil War, addressing several critical points and the overall reintegration of the South into the Union. My policy is based on equality between the South and the North and on the re-establishment, as much as possible, of a political balance and a balance of economic powers. First of all, what is the primary objective of reconstruction? Successfully bringing America together requires tackling one issue at a time. Addressing the issue of Reconstruction and the issue of civil rights at the same time was too difficult to address at the same time, and to ensure that both issues were addressed fully and fairly, they had to be addressed one by one. So it seems logical to start with the issue of reunification, because the nation must first be unified before it can address the issue of civil rights. Reunification would not be easy. I think reunification should have happened at the state level. Each state would apply to become a state of the union again. They could do so once a state ratifies a new “Reconstruction” amendment. This amendment would allow the Southern states to rejoin the union, provided they accepted all federal laws and provided that a 2...... middle of paper ......o stress on citizens of the South, it would be a waste of time and money. Troops could spend this time training instead of wasting it. The money that would have to be spent to feed, house, and clothe them would be enormous, and the nation needed to put all of its money into helping the South get back on its feet, not paying soldiers to sit idly by. I think the rebuild wasn't as good as it could have been, I don't think I could have done better. It is very difficult to reunite a union, especially one as fragile as the United States. I think what was done was probably for the best, and of course it's impossible to go back in time and change it, but if I had the chance, I would let things happen as they were. After the war we saw enormous growth in American industry, and I think to some extent this was due to the way Reconstruction was handled..