Compare life for African Americans in the South during Reconstruction to life for Native Americans
Compare life for African Americans in the South during Reconstruction to life for Native Americans during Westward Expansion (ch. 15, Document 15-5 & 15-6). How were their situations similar? How did their situations differ?
How were African Americans affected by the westward expansion?
The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, and crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840s, it was pouring into Texas. So the expansion of slavery, which became the major political question of the 1850s, was not just a political issue.
What was life like for African Americans during Reconstruction in the South?
In the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, newly freed African Americans faced monumental challenges to establish their own households, farm their own lands, establish community institutions and churches, and to pursue equal justice under the law in a period of racist violence.
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