fandomhigh | US History (Monday, March 27, 7th period)

"Okay," Josh said, putting his hands together. "The Civil War was bad. Brother against brother, war pretty much without mercy. Names you should know: Lee, Grant, Lincoln, Davis, McClellan, Meade, Burnside, Longstreet, Sherman, John Brown, John Wilkes Booth. Battles you should care about: Antietam, Gettysburg, First and Second Manassas, the Wilderness, the Merrimac and the Monitor. Documents you should read: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address. Reason you should know them: Quiz next Monday."

He smiled. "For today, a question for you all. The end of the Civil War and the 13th Amendment banned slavery in this country. But are you really free if you don't have an education and can't get a job?" He looked around the classroom. "Yes. Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson, radical Republicans, mistakes we made in trying to bring two parts of a very divided country back together. What should we have done differently? How much do you think Lincoln being alive for the post-war years would've mattered?"

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Lana still looked pretty miserable and as careful not to look at the seat where Shep used to sit.

"I think if Lincoln had lived there wouldn't have been such a desire to punish the South after the war. Sanctions would probably have been more moderate and Lincoln could have helped make sure that the things set in place were more reasonable. We might have been able to avoid a lot of the backlash that resulted in the carpetbaggers and maybe even some of the conditions that started up the KKK. It still wouldn't have been pretty, but I don't think it would have gotten as ugly as it did."

Josh gave her a sympathetic smile. "Good points, Lana."

"Education programs for those who were enslaved? Government jobs? Vocational training? That sort of thing?" Cally offers.

"Good ideas," Josh said. "Some of them were tried--the problem with government jobs was that people handing them out weren't in the most, um, harmonious frame of mind when they were doing it."

"It would have been better," Quinn says with a nod.

Josh nodded back. "One of the great turning points of history, I think. Because Johnson? Was an idiot."

"I totally agree," says Quinn. Who doesn't actually know, but sometimes she just has to go with it.

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