Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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... Republican leaders were tired of Reconstruction and simply looked the other way while Republican governments all over the South disintegrated . By 1876 , all ex - Confederate states except Louisiana , South Carolina , and Florida had ...
... Republican leaders were tired of Reconstruction and simply looked the other way while Republican governments all over the South disintegrated . By 1876 , all ex - Confederate states except Louisiana , South Carolina , and Florida had ...
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... Republican rule continued throughout the decade . True , there was excessive and irrespon- sible speculation on the New York stock exchange . True , organized crime was widespread and gang wars rocked Chicago and New York . True , as we ...
... Republican rule continued throughout the decade . True , there was excessive and irrespon- sible speculation on the New York stock exchange . True , organized crime was widespread and gang wars rocked Chicago and New York . True , as we ...
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... Republican pledge to do something about communist enslavement - it was never very clear exactly what - brought millions of former Democratic voters into the Republican fold , especially those of East European descent . Eisenhower reaped ...
... Republican pledge to do something about communist enslavement - it was never very clear exactly what - brought millions of former Democratic voters into the Republican fold , especially those of East European descent . Eisenhower reaped ...
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Thunder in D Alexander Brown | 42 |
the West 5 Day of the Cattleman | 50 |
Gilded Age Bernard A Weisberger | 84 |
Copyright | |
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