us history short answer
1. In the 1880s-1920s schools began to teach the history of the Civil War in American classrooms. In those classsrooms teachers described the Civil War as the Lost Cause War. What is that and what was its purpose? What was the consequence of teaching this idea, unintended or purposeful?
2. Besides slavery being over in the United States, what were some legal, economic, political, social, and cultural changes for African Americans immediately after the Civil War? How did Southern and Northern whites react to these changes? What happened in the South after the US government began to remove federal troops and states started to pass black codes?