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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> Reconstruction answers the following topics: CHAPTER 2 THE KKK CRISIS<\/strong> The KKK Crisis answers the following topics: CHAPTER 3 GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER<\/strong> George Washington Carver answers the following topics: CHAPTER 4 RAILROAD RECOVERY<\/strong> Railroad Recovery answers the following topics: <\/a><\/p>\n The end of the American Civil War is not the end of the conflict between Northern states and Southern states. The battlefield shooting is over, but the political arguments over civil rights go on \u2013 sometimes with new violence between … Continue reading
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\nCHAPTER 1 RECONSTRUCTION<\/strong>
\nThe Civil\u2008War destroys many families, farms, and ideas. Now that the war is over, what kind of country will the former enemies in the North and South rebuild? Will they work together or try to build two separate nations under one flag? It is time to reconstruct buildings, government, and the ways people treat each other. The choices made in this Reconstruction Era will steer the United States for decades to come . . .<\/p>\n
\nWhen was America\u2019s \u201cReconstruction?\u201d
\nWhat was \u201cThe Freedmen\u2019s Bureau?\u201d
\nHow free were the freed men?
\nWhat amendments helped ex-slaves?
\nHow does Reconstruction end?<\/p>\n
\nA problem with the struggle to rebuild the United States as one nation is the anger that many former Confederate soldiers feel towards this new society. The Republican governments that take over the South ask black and white people to live equally, but many white Southerners cannot change the attitudes they had before and during the war. An underground group called the Ku Klux Klan begins to pull together wartime guerrilla fighters, bored young men, displaced Democratic politicians, angry poor white farmers, workmen scared of black competition . . .<\/p>\n
\nHow did the Ku Klux Klan start?
\nHow did the Ku Klux Klan dress?
\nHow did the Ku Klux Klan operate?
\nWhat did U.S. Grant do about the KKK?
\nWhat did the Klan do after 1875?<\/p>\n
\nGeorge Washington Carver is one of the success stories of the Reconstruction Era. He is born a slave but becomes one of the first black people to attend an American college and makes a name for himself as a scientist and educator. The farms of the South have become too dependent on cotton, which ruins the soil after several years. Carver teaches poor farmers to grow other crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and of cash. His life shows that black people can solve problems for themselves!<\/p>\n
\nWas George Washington Carver born a slave?
\nDid the South get reconstructed?
\nWhat did a sharecropper do?
\nHow did Carver make inventions?
\nWhy was Carver the \u201cPeanut Wizard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe business that does the most to tie the North and South back together is the railroads. Northern businessmen have the money to pay for new railroad tracks across the nation, and for many poor Southern towns a rail line is the difference between survival and disappearance. This improvement in transportation also boosts some industries in the South because they can get their products to faraway markets faster on trains!<\/p>\n
\nHow did railroading coal help the South?
\nWho paid for the new railroads?
\nHow did railroads help farming?
\nWhere were cigarettes big business?
\nWhere did railroads carry textiles?<\/p>\nView the Teacher’s guide<\/a> for this comic!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"