The following paper was written for a class at the Timothy Ministry, a homeschool co-op in Woodstock, Georgia. The version below was published in the Timothy Ministry History Club Journal in 2023, a project where I served as editor. The homework question that prompted the paper was: “How did the United States change between 1865 and 1900?”
The paper draws largely from secondary sources, and a copy of almost every source cited is in my book collection. Hay and Nicolay’s Abraham Lincoln and the 1867 U.S. Statues at Large are the sole exceptions.
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Andrew J. Bramlett 