U.S History from the Middle Amanda Duffy

In this episode, I discuss the legacies of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee and Frederick Douglass. 

In this episode, I discuss the 3 different plans for Reconstruction, the impeachment of President Johnson and the end of Reconstruction.  

In this episode, I discuss the attempts at and eventual failures of Reconstruction after the Civil War. 

In this episode, I discuss the beginnings of Reconstruction, the 13th amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th amendment.  I also briefly touch on the history of racism in the United States, a theme that will continue through most of our course.

Following the Civil War, the U.S. government passed three amendments one right after the other to protect the rights of former slaves as they transitioned from slavery to freedom. 

Now that the Civil War has ended, what impacts are left behind?