A History of US: Book 7: Reconstruction and Reform
Joy Hakim
Hardcover
(Oxford University Press, Sept. 8, 1994)
America began to rebuild after the devastation of the Civil War. Urban areas grew, the plains and western farm lands became settled, the women's and labor movements began, and exciting new inventions, such as the telegraph, telephone, and electric light, began to appear. Reconstruction andReform epitomizes the story of the struggle to fulfill the promise of freedom, the cornerstone of A History of US.
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