A good outline covering the developments leading up to Reconstruction, the events as it progressed, and how this period of history ended. Accompanied by a video entitled 'The Failure of Reconstruction'. [2:35]

In this Crash Course video with John Green, we look at Reconstruction after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson's divisive presidency, the election of 1876, and how African-Americans fared after the failure of...