HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: The Second Civil War, Equal Protection Clause, Economic Mobility
14 Mar 2016
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Devastation in 1865: created new demands for governmental intervention. War and demands for government actions: post-industrialization. Problems and questions americans faced and debated at the end of the civil war: looming political and equality rights, questions of economics, moving to area of reconstruction, reconstruction: 12 years after civil war. Issues played out in the us south during reconstruction, the second civil war : citizenship and equality, land, labour, economy, powers of government. Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery, but only begins. fredrick. Douglass: african american writer and important voice, emancipation (end of slavery) and freedom are different. Our negroes have a tall fall ahead of them they will learn that freedom and independence are different things. planter samuel agnew: arguing that just because african americans have freedom, this does not equate to independence. Freedom, it is necessary to define that word, for it is most apt to be misunderstood. : o. o.
