American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. Interview with Eric Foner, historian, Columbia University. 4 of 5 /
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to C...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Boston, MA :
WGBH Educational Foundation,
2004.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, Amos Akerman and efforts against the Klan, the Fifteenth Amendment, sharecropping and overproduction of cotton. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (48 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:48:24 |