Assignment

 

1.  Editor and journalist Henry Woodfin Grady, coined the term the “New South,” what exactly was this “New South” that Grady was referring to?

2.  Politics and corruption essentially go hand and hand, explain how the politics and corruption of the 1876 Presidential election led to the end of Reconstruction?

3.  The lost cause narrative glorified how the Confederacy cause was a noble and even a heroic cause which was done to preserve the southern way of life and minimize the actual impact of slavery in being a reason for the Civil War.  Explain how the lost cause narrative which was very much the leading narrative in the south after the Civil War and in fact throughout the 20th century have led to how the United States even in 2016 have a divided view on how the Civil War is remembered?