Part one of term paper
The reconstruction period was a time of recovery for the country as a whole. To heal the deep wounds of the civil war. The loss of cities, towns, homes, and family members. Whole cities were burned level, and widows were left scattered all over the country with a small pile of smoking rubble left as their houses. The whole country was a shamb ...

Part two of term paper
... enslaved for hundreds of years, they were suddenly free….. or were they? True, they no longer belonged to someone else …… well at least not technically. They would be able to earn their own money now….. or would they? At least they would be given equality …. Wouldn’t they? The answer to these questions is simply no. The "reconstruction", the "new beginning", may all have been true. It was a "new beginning" wasn’t it? Yes, it was, but was it a good one? The answer to that question i ...