American History Recontruction Era

Reconstruction appeared to be a program to aid in the assimilation of the freed blacks into American social and economic system. The radical republicans in congress had a different goal by describing the plans of president Lincoln and Johnson and how they differed from the plans of congress put special emphasis on the impact of the 14th amendment and what is attempted to reverse, do you feel that historians are justified in calling this period the darkest period of American history? would you have done anything different?