PugJesus@piefed.socialM to ShermanPosting@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month agoReconstruction didn't last long enoughmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1553arrow-down14
arrow-up1549arrow-down1imageReconstruction didn't last long enoughmedia.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.socialM to ShermanPosting@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square76linkfedilink
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoIf you actually look at the reconstruction period it never really happened at all. Which is largely because Lincoln’s successor didn’t believe in it.
minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoJohnson sabotaged everything he could, but Grant was a good Union boy and put in 8 years of effort in Reconstruction. Shame about Grant’s choice of ‘friends’.
minus-squareJoeBigelow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoHe was too drunk to make good choices
If you actually look at the reconstruction period it never really happened at all. Which is largely because Lincoln’s successor didn’t believe in it.
Johnson sabotaged everything he could, but Grant was a good Union boy and put in 8 years of effort in Reconstruction.
Shame about Grant’s choice of ‘friends’.
He was too drunk to make good choices