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Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas-healing and justice...[T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply America's inevitable historical condition...But theories of inevitability...are rarely satisfying... The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century but it could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War I. David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001. 

          Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas-healing and justice...[T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply America's inevitable historical condition...But theories of inevitability...are rarely satisfying... The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century but it could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War I. David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001.
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Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas-healing and justice...[T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply America's inevitable historical condition...But theories of inevitability...are rarely satisfying... The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century but it could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War I. David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001.
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00:01 Hello students, in this question we have been asked several questions based on the class of history from 1865.
00:09 So the first question is about the reconstruction of amendments, the 13th, 14th and 15th.
00:20 The specific freedoms granted by the three reconstruction amendments were especially significant because they aimed at addressing injustice and inequalities faced by african americans after the civil war.
00:41 The 13th amendment abolished slavery, the 14th amendment granted equal protection, equal protection under the law and citizenship rights to all individuals and the 15th amendment prohibited denial of voting rights.
01:01 So these amendments were significant because they represented a fundamental shift in the legal status of african americans.
01:18 They provided a legal framework for equality and promised new opportunities for the african american to participate in society as free citizens.
01:33 However, these amendments did not provide comprehensive protections against discrimination.
01:43 They did not address economic disparities, education inequalities or social segregation which were crucial factors in determining position of power and success in american society.
02:00 In the jim crow system in the south, these freedoms were systematically subverted.
02:09 African americans faced numerous discrimination, discriminatory laws and practices that aimed to maintain white supremacy and deny their rights.
02:25 For example, poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses were used to prevent african americans from voting...
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