MSNBC Civil War June 4, 2024 23:51:00
Time that begins immediately after the war. 10 to 12 years, when america had to truly reinvent itself. 14th amendment puts equal protection of the law into the u.s. constitution. and the right to vote for black men in the 15th amendment, was a constitutional and a legal revolution. and some black spokesmen by the 1890s, at the turn of the 20th century, would often refer to 1865 as the year zero of a new calendar. a new beginning to history itself. but you have to incorporate the white south into an american union. a society that had just lost approximately 18% of its adult