The United States of America would be forever changed after this catastrophic internal dispute. After the war, Union veterans known as "Carpetbaggers" traveled South looking for work in the South's reconstruction. Families, political parties, states, and even Native American tribes were split in half due to the conflict and contention. The Reconstruction period did not fully mend the issues regarding slavery, but it paved the way for equal racial rights. Although this was a large-scale war, the allegiances of European nations to America remained fairly uninvolved. As with any war, it would take years of healing before the individual states became a nation again.