HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Racialization, Carpetbagger, Sharecropping
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Reconstruction and the new south: the impact of the civil war, wartime planning, presidential reconstruction, congressional reconstruction, republican rule in the south, southern redemption and the new south. This lecture will not be on the exam midterm. Union lost 360000 men con fed 26000= 620000 men lost. This was by far the highest casualty rate of any war because the us was fighting itself. According to newy data mayb 1 foutrh of a million. 10% of the souths white pop was killed. A billion $ worth of damage, the millions invested in slavery are lost once it is ended. The freed men an estatic to be free but their lives are now full of huge incertainties. The vast majority own nothing but the clothes on their backs. A. l. takes longer to sign the bill on purpoise so the bill expoires and is vittoed. South is mad they ostal dosnt want to make it worse.
