Manisha Sinha - The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic - Notes

 The author expands the definition of Reconstruction expanding its reach from the beginning of the Civil War to the 19th Amendment in 1920 which gave women the vote, connecting Reconstruction in the former slave states to national events like labor unrest in the late 19th Century, the Progressive Era, the beginning of the big business Republican Party, and American expansion overseas in South America and the Pacific.

P. 3 Enslaved people viewed Lincoln as their liberator.