Chapter 16: The Crisis of Reconstruction

In this chapter, it explains the after math after the Civil War. The nation needed and faced some serious reconstruction. This process took a lot faster than everyone thought it would. Everyone thought it would be a slow process, and there would be no room to make it. One of the major things that they faced was the Impact of Emancipation. As soon as slaves got liberty, this meant mobility. Some were able to move away from plantations all together, others moved into what they thought would be different. Others would be move out of the state to go find lost family members. Sadly, the reunification never worked out so well. They would have different of severe labor and working for free would be different stories. It happened to be one of the major works to why slavery didn't work.