HIST 2057 Chapter : History Essay Questions
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History essay questions: the process of reconstruction and its outcomes. Americans: violence, whites attack blacks on street, burning schools, attacking teachers who don"t assume supremacy, lynching, ex: new orleans riot murdering of af. Am in streets: the process of reconstruction and its outcomes. Be able to explain the issues, the nature of presidential reconstruction (self-reconstruction), how it operated in the south and why that led the north to change is policy to that of congressional reconstruction. Then be able to explain how congressional reconstruction played out in washington and particularly in the south, in politics as well as in economics. *ambiguity municipal boss working class saw them as a good thing, middle class saw them as corruption. In any essay prompt having ambiguity would be a good thing. Growth of cities (because of immigration, industrialization, and technology) Saloons/immorality saloon another symbol of ambiguity (middle class saw it as a way to release tension, upper class saw immorality)
