Choose one of the below for your main post. The initial post with well referenced facts is due by Wednesday, 11:55 p.m. ET. (in the subject line, place a creative, enticing title, the question number, and your answer). Two peer responses are due by Friday, 11:55 p.m. ET–respond to at least one student who answered a different question from you. The answers should come from your textbook, the lectures, videos, and the research you conducted in the APUS Library.

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First watch the PBS video: Reconstruction: A Moment In The Sun

Choose one of the below for your main post. The initial post with well referenced facts is due by Wednesday, 11:55 p.m. ET.  (in the subject line, place a creative, enticing title, the question number, and your answer). Two peer responses are due by Friday, 11:55 p.m. ET–respond to at least one student who answered a different question from you. The answers should come from your textbook, the lectures, videos, and the research you conducted in the APUS Library.

Discussion on Material from readings of Week 7

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First watch the PBS video: Reconstruction: A Moment In The Sun

Choose one of the below for your main post. The initial post with well referenced facts is due by Wednesday, 11:55 p.m. ET.  (in the subject line, place a creative, enticing title, the question number, and your answer). Two peer responses are due by Friday, 11:55 p.m. ET–respond to at least one student who answered a different question from you. The answers should come from your textbook, the lectures, videos, and the research you conducted in the APUS Library.

One of the two peer responses must be to a question that was different than your own.

1. Give detailed, analytical examples of how the ex-slave society tried to stop the advancement of African Americans after the Civil War.
2. How did African Americans respond to the end of slavery and the realities of freedom? How did southern whites respond to the loss of their slaves and the slave-based economy?
3. Analytically describe the debate in Congress over Reconstruction. What was the result? How did the laws and policies passed affect the South?
4. Analyze why Reconstruction ended.
5. What role did the KKK and the Red Shirt militias play in southern politics during the 1860s and 1870s?

Last part: At the end of your post please comment in one paragraph on what you have learned that was new, surprising, and interesting. 

Recommended sites for sources:

APUS library

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

Archival sources on Reconstruction –

Special Field Order No. 15, at the Freedmen & Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland.