To reconstruct means to construct again, and that was just what was needed after the Civil War. The United States was a country torn apart at the seams. Ready to find out what it takes to heal a nation? For kids studying Reconstruction, the issue carefully tweezes apart the competing interests and policies in the post-war period.
First, kids get an overview of Andrew Johnson’s policies, the Southern response, and Congress’s response to the response, which included the 14th and 15th Amendments. Then they can read about the effect of these policies on the formerly-enslaved population in the South.
Kids curious about the people who populated the West will find plenty of details in this issue including information about the Homestead Act and the discovery of gold. The issue also contains many images and lots of information about Native American resistance to the settlers’ land grab and their ultimate acceptance of reservations. Kids who want more details about life in the North can read about the poor working conditions and low wages that led to strikes in the late 19th century. They’ll also discover business leaders like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie and lots of details about immigrants arriving from other countries.
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The Last Frontier
By the early 1800s, settlers had come through Alaska and Mexico, or across the Pacific, to ...
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Native American Resistance
Discrimination against Native Americans was even more widespread than it was against Afric ...
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Why Immigrate? Why Migrate?
Eventually, your family saves enough to rent a small diner. It serves affordable Southern ...
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Will the States Be United Again?
It’s 1865. You live with your mom, brothers, and sisters near Richmond, Virginia. Fo ...
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Hard Times
The entire city of Richmond lies in rubble, not far from where you live.
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How Hull House Helped
Jane Addams visited London as a young woman. There, she learned about social settlements, ...
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Life in the North
It’s several years later, after you and your family left Richmond and moved north to ...
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New Faces from Faraway Lands
Poet Emma Lazarus wrote these famous words “Give me your tired, your poor, your hudd ...
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