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Debating Reconstruction

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1.) Your Essay should be 3-4 pages.2.) Double spaced (with no extra space between paragraphs).3.) 12 inch Times New Roman type-face.4.) 1 inch margins5.) Your Essay needs to use "internal citations."For this short essay, you will need to consult three sources: 1.) your online textbook 2.)  a set of primary sources 3.)  a work of history that can be considered outdated.QUESTIONS:1.) Was Reconstruction a success, a failure, or both? (Hint: your answer to this question could serve as your thesis.)2.) How does Dunning's interpretation of Reconstruction from 1903 differ from the interpretation you've gotten from the class lectures and online textbook?INSTRUCTIONS:1.) Read and interpret the Dunning article. Then, you should read chapter 15 from the online textbook and review your notes from class lectures on Reconstruction. Some aspect of your essay should compare and contrast Dunning with the more modern takes by you've learned about in this class.2.) Explore the primary source documents in the Freedom and Southern Society Project website linked below. (Hint: you should use at least 2 to 3 of these sources in your essay.) You should add some of these voices into your essay.3.) Put everything together. Think in-depth about the questions above.4.) Craft an essay with a clear thesis/argument statement in the first paragraph. Your body paragraphs should support the thesis. You should address the questions above and incorporate the sources contained in this assignment (e.g. Dunning, the online textbook, class lectures, and the primary sources in the Freedom and Southern Society Project). SOURCES:1.) The “Dunning School” interpretation of Reconstruction as it appeared in an Atlantic article, Oct. 1901.2.) http://www.americanyawp.com/text/15-reconstruction/ (texbook, chapter 15)3.) Freedom and Southern Society Project: Land and Labor, 1866-1867http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/LL66-67pg.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.(Scroll through these documents and pick two or three of them that speak to the challenging situation in the South after the Civil War.)
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