reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877)

Twelve primary and secondary sources debate issues regarding Reconstruction, such as whether the South should have been treated as conquered territory, whether the Freedmen's Bureau was harmful, and whether Reconstruction as a whole was a failure.

In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

Text and accompanying photographs examine the period of struggle to fulfill the promise of freedom after the devastation of the Civil War.

Describes the time following the Civil War, where the war-torn South had to be rebuilt, and Americans, including 4 million former slaves, had to make peace with one another.

Features the debates that surrounded America's Reconstruction period following the Civil War.

Covers African-American advancements during the period of the federal government's management of the defeated Southern states.

"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life.

Describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation.

Original source documents are woven into a narrative providing the experiences and points of view of former slaves during the long process of Reconstruction following the Civil War.