What's the deal with Reconstruction?

Reconstruction was a time following the Civil War, it was the policies that were discussed and then later implemented after the Emancipation Proclamation. The policies include how states that seceded would regain a seat in Congress, and the civil rights of freedmen. What worked well was that secessionist states were let back in, and what worked poorly was that it was all quite violent, and the civil rights didn't work completely. After the reconstruction the South was dominated by Democrats.

The Reconstruction is relevant today because there are still struggles for civil rights, and the rivalries from the civil war are still alive. One example is that the fourteenth amendment came out of the Reconstruction, and it is being questioned today. The fourteenth amendment gives people born here citizenship, and people are saying that the children of illegal immigrants today should not be citizens. Here is an article on it : http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=1283_0_2_0