Learn US History...Fast!

This is one of the more interesting and misunderstood periods of our American history. The video covers the period of reconstruction from the end of the Civil War to the 1870's.

The corruption, racism on an institutional level and outright power struggles between Congress and the US President who followed Lincoln were epic and defining to the nation that formed out of our civil war.

What is often misunderstood is how the politics and race of that worked out. Claims made today are sometimes impossible to see any reflection of for facts of the past. If you have about 13 minutes, this may be one of the more valuable in the entire set. This is also the period where direct and straight lines of events then can be drawn to events today. What came before the Civil War is nowhere near as clear to link that way...but the events starting with the end of the war were formative to everything that followed.



The video also covers the rather disastrous tenure of our 3rd worst U.S. President and one of the most corrupt racists to ever hold the office in our nation. Andrew Johnson. The first US president to have Congress override a Veto (more than once, too), and one to be impeached but not properly removed afterward. He had about as much chance of winning election on his own merit as Britain sending us war reparations for burning down our White House tho. President Grant is who followed the buffoon..but Johnson did enormous damage in his short time at bat.