What do you think were the most significant ways the Union and Confederacy’s political ends transformed the course of the war, if at all?

Civil War and Reconstruction

What do you think were the most significant ways the Union and Confederacy’s political ends transformed the course of the war, if at all?

In what specific and significant ways can we consider the Reconstruction period as a culmination of these transformations?

Use specific examples from the readings(Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution