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Hello. I am Chris.
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We're not teaching.
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I've often been asked in my job teaching history.
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How? What's the deal with reconstruction?
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Why didn't this work?
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Why is it that we're still dealing with these issues
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today? Why couldn't they just get it right the first
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time? Well, these are all great questions, and reconstruction is
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a very complicated moment in American history.
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But there's a few things that we can look at
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to try to unpack it, to understand what happened during
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the time, maybe why it wasn't fixed or what Reconstruction
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is not really considered a success.
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It is widely considered to be a failure and other
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things like let me do that.