American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. 4 of 5
Description
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, Amos Akerman and efforts against the Klan, the Fifteenth Amendment, sharecropping and overproduction of cotton.
Runtime
48 minutes
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Alexander Street
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