There are three groups of people that are very affected by Reconstruction: southern whites, southern blacks, and northerners. For each of these groups, describe briefly 1-2 advantages and disadvantages of Reconstruction.

Lincoln was mending the Union and the South back together with hope of Union-support in the south. Bad states would be taken as “conquered provinces” to the Union.

Many facts about the month of February presented for all to explore.

Examining a period of forty tumultuous years in the history of the United States.

Historians Howard Zinn and Irwin Unger amass powerful historical evidence to explain how Reconstruction failed to secure equal civil rights for blacks in the American South after the Civil War. Though factually consistent, the two accounts nonetheless differ concerning who was responsible for Reconstruction’s failure and, by extension, whether the failure was inevitable.