“Reconstruction was a complete bust,” declared an enraged and overworked historian. “African Americans were no better off in late nineteenth-century America than they had been as […]
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
After the Civil War, white Southerners could no longer extract Black labor through enslavement and sought to “obtain their labor by some other method.” What methods were used to […]
Reconstruction
Reconstruction witnessed profound changes in the lives of southerners, black and white, rich and poor. Explain the various ways that the lives of these groups changed. Were the changes […]
Reconstruction
In your historical interpretation, was Reconstruction a success or a failure? Or was it something in between? In your response, consider land policy, key legislation during Presidential and Radical […]
Reconstruction
At the end of the Civil War, there are 4 million freed slaves-with no history of legal education, rights or property. If you were the President, how would you craft […]
Reconstruction
To what extent did reconstruction succeed? Define reconstruction, give two examples of what it accomplished and evaluate the extent to which those accomplishments were eventually reversed.
Reconstruction
Discuss the social, political and economic conditions of life for the former slaves from the end of the Civil War through the collapse of Reconstruction