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This 15 page paper features the Reconstruction Era myths, misconceptions and mistakes made by historians. Issues such as the freedom enjoyed by blacks, equal rights for women, and the generosity and kindness of the North toward the South during Reconstruction are debated. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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consider that those who documented history as it was happening, did so with their own biases and agendas firmly in place. Such is the case with that period of time
known as the Reconstruction Era in the South. Though most history books claim that Reconstruction was a time of coming together of burying the hatchet and letting by-gones be by-gones,
in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike the Civil War which left nearly six hundred thousand men dead and at least half of that wounded or irreparably
damaged, the casualties of the new kinds of civil wars were the taxpayers and the groups of peoples that the constitution sought to protect; whose only circumstance was that they
resided in the South. The student should note that in some respects the Civil War never ended, it just changed clothes and the social reforms that were attempted fell far
short of the intended mark. The devastation of the countryside in the South did not end with the signing of the Treaty, as most were led to believe. In fact,
most people believe that after the treaty was signed, America became more united than it had ever been. Guns were laid aside and men went home to their families, but
in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good while after the war, the South was
divided into military zones and the citizens lived basically under house arrest, but these are the sorts of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books
portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent soldiers who had the best interests of the slaves at heart. Wrong on all counts. Secondly, history books tend to show the Rebel
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