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