Last week we took some time to examine what was happening in America after the Civil War ended. The chaos of Lincoln's assassination foreshadowed what would be a tumultuous decade of "reconstructing" the nation.
As we saw in the Crash Course video, some great gains were made in the name of racial and civil equality but were not sustained. Congress and the office of the President (Johnson, Grant and Hayes) found themselves at odds which did not help the situation at all.
Eventually, in 1877, federal troops were removed from the south and the region essentially reverted back to its pre-Civil War ways (which was good for most whites and bad for most African Americans).
For this week's blog, please visit this website and choose any ONE of the links that say "reading" in the green box. Note, there are several pages to choose from at the bottom of the site.
Read whichever article seems the most interesting to you.
In the comment section, write 200 words summarizing what you learned about the Reconstruction Era from the article you selected.
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