Essays on Reconstruction Era of the United States

The United State is constantly changing as time is continuously moving forward. The America of the mid-1800’s is almost not recognizable to the New America of the early 1900s. From the 13th amendment being set in place to the railroads being built as a means...

In March 1867, nearly two years after the confederate armies had begun to surrender and more than a year after Congress had refused to seat representatives from the former Confederate states, the mark of Radicalism was indelibly inscribed into the cornerstone of the reconstructed American...

The issue of diversity has been present for a long time and it has been subject to several debates with various leaders taking dissimilar positions regarding the matter. Today the world as it was many decades ago is a diverse place with people coming from...

America faced a multitude of challenges and tensions in terms of achieving full-fledged democracy at the end of the 1800s. Unstable government, an unfair economy, and a divided population were among the most prominent challenges and tensions. In order to see how these circumstances hindered...

“Black troops helped construct schools, churches, and orphanages, organized debating societies, and held political gatherings where “freedom songs” were sung and soldiers delivered “speeches of the most inflammatory kind.” – Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 In the following paragraphs below, I’ll be talking...

There were many things that were happening during the Reconstruction Era but the one that stood out most was racism. Racism impacted America for a long time and has brought many changes between the people and how America works too. Reconstruction gave the African Americans...

The United State had to go through many wars to become the most powerful country in the world like nowadays. At that hard and long history, the Civil War and the Reconstruction were the names of those famous wars that not only every single person...