As the Civil War came to a close, the nation was torn into regional sections, the North and the South. A major source of division was the cultural way of life. How was the country to survive as one nation if half the population felt that slavery was ok or a “necessary evil” while the other half saw bondage as inhumane, against American values and actually not a good thing for all free working people.?

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As the Civil War came to a close, the nation was torn into regional sections, the North and the South. A major source of division was the cultural way of life. How was the country to survive as one nation if half the population felt that slavery was ok or a “necessary evil” while the other half saw bondage as inhumane, against American values and actually not a good thing for all free working people.? This post war era was known as Reconstruction since the South had to be brought back into the fold if a singular nation was to emerge.
In a two page essay describe the federal governments efforts to bring the country together as a new nation that would not tolerate slavery. Make sure to use the following keywords in your essay; 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan and the Redeemers.
Make sure you quote the online textbook in essay at least TWICE in your essay. Make sure you take a look at the MLA formatting guides for the right way to cite the online text.
Always double space your essay.

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