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Reconstruction and reform

Joy Hakim
A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization
Print Book, English, 1999
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Oxford University Press, New York, 1999
Series
192 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
9780195127638, 9780195127645, 0195127633, 0195127641
39786762
Preface : are we equal? Are we kidding?
Reconstruction means rebuilding
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Presidential reconstruction
Slavery and states' rights
Congressional reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens : radical
Impeaching a president
Welcome to Meeting Street
A southern girl's diary
A failed revolution
Meanwhile, out West
Riding the trail
Rails across the country
Taking the train
Fencing the homestead
Reaping a harvest
The trail ends on a reservation
The people of the pierced noses
A villain, a dreamer, a cartoonist
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Huck, tom, and friends
Immigrants speak
More about immigrants
The strange case of the Chinese laundry
Going to court
Tea in Wyoming
Are you a citizen if you can't vote?
Mary in the promised land
One hundred candles
How were things in 1876?
The wizard of electricity
Jim Crow-what a fool!
Ida B. Wells
Lynching means killing by a mob
A man and his times
A man ahead of his times
End words
Colored illustrations on endpapers