… will be hammered down.” Society tries to place many regulations on us as individuals as to what is admissible and what is not. We must decide for ourselves whether to conform to such a social decorum. We are taught as soon as we are old enough to grasp…

… four main groups of people, Southern Whites, Recently Freed Blacks, Northern Democrats, and Northern Republicans, were all competing to rebuild the war ravaged South to their advantage or ideals, but it was the Southern Whites whose needs were…

… was a misguided scheme that collapsed, or an experiment that lacked authority. A period marked by tremendous controversy, the government faced issues such: the extent of the constitutional powers of the federal government to intervene in a state's…

… the Civil War. Reconstruction also refers to us as the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 till 1877 and was and still is the most controversial periods in the nation’s history. Scholars still debate over…

… of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861-1865). Since the United States had never before experienced civil war, the end of hostilities left Americans to grapple with a set of pressing questions over what to do with the South after…

… a very difficult task to do. It seemed everyone had their own opinion on how to accept the southern states back into the union. The first man who attempted this and also was the president who led the Union to victory was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s…

… did not ultimately heal the wounds of the Civil War. The efforts of the moderate Congress and special interest agencies also helped to put the Union back together. In 1864, the Radical Republicans were characterized by vindictiveness towards the ex-Conf…

… era after the Civil War was called the Reconstruction Period. Reconstruction was a federal policy established immediately after the South surrendered; it was an attempt to create a new Southern society and heal the terrible wounds between the…

… was resigned to attempts at "elevating woman's role in the domestic sphere." (5)In the years preceding the civil war and the progressive era of reconstruction that followed it, women's rights became women's suffrage and with the change in name…

… in Mexico City, a few weeks away from the Mexico '68 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. For the last three months, the city had been facing an intensive and stressful situation with the national university students on strike. This strike was initi…