History of Us Reconstructing America Book

	Preface: Are We Equal? Are We Kidding?	9
	Feature: A Water Bird and A Sparrow	11
1	Reconstruction Means Rebuilding	12
2	Who Was Andrew Johnson?	15
3	Presidential Reconstruction	17
4	Slavery and States' Rights	21
5	Congressional Reconstruction	24
6	Thaddeus Stevens: Radical	28
7	Impeaching a President	32
8	Welcome to Meeting Street	36
9	A Southern Girl's Diary	40
10	A Failed Revolution	44
11	Meanwhile, Out West	49
12	Riding the Trail	52
13	Rails Across the Country	58
14	Taking the Train	64
15	Fencing the Homestead	68
	Feature: Conscience, Conservationism, and Courage--All in One Man...	71
	Feature: On the Lone Prairie	74
16	Reaping a Harvest	76
17	The Trail Ends on a Reservation	80
	Feature: Pitiful Last Becomes a Winner	86
18	The People of the Pierced Noses	89
	Feature: The Route of the Nez Perce, 1877	93
19	A Villain, a Dreamer, a Cartoonist	95
20	Phineas Taylor Barnum	101
21	Huck, Tom, and Friends	105
22	Immigrants Speak	111
	Feature: Hurrah for America, My Free Country	117
23	More About Immigrants	119
24	The Strange Case of the Chinese Laundry	123
25	Going to Court	126
26	Tea in Wyoming	130
27	Are You a Citizen If You Can't Vote?	133
	Feature: Law and the Ladies	137
28	Mary in the Promised Land	140
29	One Hundred Candles	146
30	How Were Things in 1876?	151
31	The Wizard of Electricity	154
32	Jim Crow--What a Fool!	160
33	Ida B. Wells	165
34	Lynching Means Killing by a Mob	170
35	A Man and His Times	174
36	A Man Ahead of His Times	177
37	End Words	181
	Chronology of Events	184
	More Books to Read	185
	Picture Credits	186
	Index	187
	A Note From the Author	192
	Atlas	193