Should Reconstruction be remembered as failed policy effort

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After viewing the video "Aftershock" and completing the other module activities, please consider Reconstruction and its implications for the future of the United States. Should Reconstruction be remembered as a failed policy effort, or should it be remembered for its long-lived innovations in law and reform? Perhaps both? In crafting your answer, please take the questions below as points of entry. * Which Reconstruction policies, laws, and amendments were new in American government? * Which ones achieved long-term influence? * Were newly freed slaves safer now or less safe? Why? * Which reforms seemed to promise that the postwar nation would safeguard human rights? What challenges stood in the way?

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