Most of the examples used to help define each of the four categories range from the Civil war to the Post-Reconstruction era. ... The black middle class also emerged as a society during this time. After blacks were guaranteed civil and political rights they began creating churches and an organized school system. ... After the fall of the South in the war, the American economy boomed for several reasons. ... In conclusion, using the example of the Klu Klux Klan will allow all four of the corner stones to be indirectly connected showing how these categories affect the important period after ...

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Perman has written yet another book on the aftermath of the Civil War, "Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879" focuses on the issues and literature produces on the events following the Civil War. ... The most traumatic event in nation's history after its independence was the Civil War (1861-65). The survival of United States as one nation was at risk during the war and on the outcome of the war depended upon the ability of the nation to bring into reality the ideals of liberty, equality, human dignity and justice. ... The issues Perman raises are crucial and give a new perspective o...

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The Era of Reconstruction following the Civil War was a period marked by an intense struggle to restore a worn-out and devastated society. ... More importantly, the South, for the first time ever, was without an easy profit economy based on slavery. ... To the dismay of many freedmen, President Johnson returned to whites the plantations that the Union Army had given to blacks during the war. ... Tilden, "We have just emerged from one civil war, and it will not do to engage in another civil war it would end in the destruction of free government." ... Despite efforts to reform a devastated nati...

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