Reconstruction: The Great Experiment By Allen W. Trelease

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Reconstruction: The Great Experiment Allen w. Trelease was a History professor, he retired from teaching in 1994. Trelease therefore has several qualifications considering he is a college professor whose major is History. This book is more informational than anything, so he has different sections where he talks about different things that happened before, during, and after the reconstruction in wartime. For example, like slavery, the presidential reconstruction, radical reconstruction etc.
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The author Trelease explains and tells readers information about how the civil war came into play with the reconstruction of American ground. Like building the railroads to the Tilden – Hayes election. It also tells about the KKK and their play

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