Hourly History
ASIN: B07V34MYFJ
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 48
Discover the remarkable history of the Reconstruction Era...Free BONUS Inside!The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, produced casualties and destruction on an unprecedented scale. Up to 800,000 soldiers were killed, and huge swathes of the American south were devastated. However, although the defeat of the Confederate States and the end of the war brought peace of a sort, it left many unresolved issues. The period following the end of the Civil War has become known as the Reconstruction Era, and during this time there were efforts to achieve two separate goals: to reintegrate the former rebel southern states fully into the Union and to achieve not only the abolition of slavery—which had been a war aim for the north—but also the emancipation and granting of civil rights to freed slaves.The Reconstruction Era proved almost as divisive as the Civil War itself—the freeing of ...