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This 3 page paper argues that it was not until Lyndon Johnson became President in 1963 that the United States was once again a whole nation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the real reunification of the country after the Civil War; the President who was in office at the time; and some of his measures. Discussion In a very basic sense,
its possible to argue that this country has never completely reunified. African-Americans, putatively free since 1863, are still in fact fighting for equality. Racism is still ever-present, and segregation is
still practiced and is on the increase. Unfair practices existing in the banking industry and in real estate, where blacks are charged higher rates or discouraged from moving into certain
areas. Over 130 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still torn. Perhaps a better question is, has any progress been made? There the answer is
yes. Reconstruction succeeded in "the limited political sense of reuniting a nation torn apart by civil war" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 509). The vision of the so-called "Radical Republicans,"
which emphasized racial justice and the political and civil rights recently guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, and which also espoused the idea of rebuilding the
Southern economy around small, independent farms, was unpopular with both the Northern public and the majority of the Republican party (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 509). By 1877, these political
aims were losing ground, paving the way for the return to the South of white domination (Faragher et al, 2000). For decades after the war and Reconstruction, when things should
have been getting better, they were in fact much worse. This is probably due to the fact that white southerners were afraid of the freed slaves, disliked them, mistrusted them
or any combination thereof, and had no desire or inclination to extend real equality to them. The Ku Klux Klan began its horrible rise; and lynchings became almost commonplace
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