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The Civil War was over and the soldiers were finally happy to join their families. Yet, arriving to their homes, the soldier's delight became sorrow and grief by seing all houses destroyed. The cause of their war was defeated and their homes were ruined. These losses caused atroce damages in the soldiers mind. Some might become mentally disabled while others might even suicide since what they lived for was dried away. Most soldiers would be confronted with traumatizing pictures in their heads of their co-soldiers murdered with blood all over their bodies. They would make dreadful nightmares and would be frightened by anything. Most of all, almost all would come back to nothing. They went fighting with the thought of coming back to their families in peace, but almost all came back to no one and nothing. Not only would they have lost families and homes but also jobs and livestocks. The war destroyed railroads, farm buildings, shipping industries, factories etc. On the other hand, some 4 million African American were freed. They were starting their new lives yet not so good as they thought. When being slaves, they were given food and shelter, however in this new life they found themselves homless, jobless and hungry. Each chose theyr'e own pathways either going and searching for new jobs or returning to their former masters and work on plantation freely. In the real world, former President Abrahim Lincoln sought a reconstruction plan. Altough the Civil War ended, there were still some oppositions. Such as a group of congressmen opposing to Lincoln's reconstruction plan. On April 14th, 1865, Abrahim Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth. This led to Andrew Johnson becoming President and continuing the Johnson's Reconstruction Plan. It consisted of 4 things to do:

1. Forgive Southerners. 

2. Permitted each state to hole a constitutional convention. 

3. States were required to void succesion, abolish slavery, and repudiate the Confederate debt.

4. States could then hold elections and rejoin the Union.

Lincoln's plan and Johnson's plan both consisted of forgiving the South and that states were able to hold elections and rejoin the Union.

This finalizes our Newspaper about the Civil War. Hopefully life will get better and the futur will be better than the past. 

Thank you for reading us, Best Regards Hanane Benkirane for Times News Paper.