Assignment task: Read chapter 15 from the textbook "give me liberty" by Fonner. Answer this
By what methods did southern whites seek to limit African American civil rights and liberties? How did the federal government respond to the Southern Backlash?
How did the failure of land reform and continued poverty lead to new forms of servitude for both blacks and whites?
What national issues and attitudes combined to bring an end to reconstruction by 1877 explain how reconstruction finally met its demise?