num_pages: 160
description: Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America, 1865-1890 is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American Westcame into a land of farmers, ranchers, miners, and city dwellers. Back East, large-scale immigration was also going on, but not all Americans wanted newcomers in the country. Technology moved Thomas Edison lit up the world with his electric light. And social justice was on everyone'smind with Carry Nation wielding a hatchet in her battle against drunkenness and Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois counseling newly freed African Americans to behave in very different ways. Through it all, the reunited nation struggles to keep the promises of freedom in this exciting chapterin the A History of US .
language: English
title: A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890
titlecomplete: A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890 (A History of US, 7)
genres: Historical, History, Education, Childrens, American History, Read For School, School, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 401
series: A History of US
publisher: Oxford University Press