1. The Gilded Age
The end of the civil war was certainly a time of change, and as times and people changed so should policies governing those people. ... According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, in the year of 1865, more than 2,000 black freed men and women were murdered during the negotiation process. ... Worried that the Civil War would have been in vain with this sudden change in Southern politics and the lack of government intervention, Congress convened to reestablish laws and protect the civil liberties of black men and women that were fought for during the Civil War. ... Another source of c...
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