Post Civil War

According to Schultz, (2012), America Post Civil War Growing Pains during the era, (1865-1900), was a restoration period in the history of the United States. Many soldiers of fighting –age, died returning home to the south, along with thousands of other Confederates bearing scares from the battle. While on the Northern part of the United States, cities began to grow from the inventions into modern society, trains, and infrastructures flourish into metropolitans after the war (p.275). Many historical turning points occurred throughout this period, The Reconstruction and the Modernization period. The Reconstruction period was the time movement when Unions brought about stability in deciding just how to transact with retorting the separated states and the status of the freed Black African American population. For the freedman, life as they called it was riotous and hard but filled with excitement during the reconstruction period, efforts were made to resolve the ongoing political, social, and economical problems which arose from the admittance to the Union of the 11 allied states.

This difficult period for the North and the South after the Civil War became very damaging to both economies. The emphasis of the reconstruction era was to eradicate the confederacy and to rebuild the southern culture, while focusing on abolishing slavery forever. One of the most significant turning points in the reconstruction period, due to the Emancipation Proclamation brought on by Abraham Lincoln in freeing the slaves in the rebelling states. In my honest opinion, this is the most significant turning point in the reconstruction period. Had Lincoln, because of his fervor had the opportunity to free the slaves I believe would have abolished slavery all together and would have took the Southern States back into the Union as hastily as possible had he not been assassinated. Lincoln’s efforts toward abolishing to include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which...