PugJesus@piefed.socialM to ShermanPosting@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agoReconstruction didn't last long enoughmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up1554arrow-down13 cross-posted to: politicalmemes@lemmy.world
arrow-up1551arrow-down1imageReconstruction didn't last long enoughmedia.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.socialM to ShermanPosting@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square79linkfedilink cross-posted to: politicalmemes@lemmy.world
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months 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-up7·3 months 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-up2·3 months 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