Khan Academy Static

The_South_after_the_Civil_War_

What would life be like in the South after the end of slavery and the plantation system?

The_American_West_

After the Civil War, there was one frontier left to conquer: the American West. As American settlers pushed west, Native Americans fought to survive.

The_Gilded_Age

In the late nineteenth century, people poured into American cities from all over the world, looking for work and a new life. Some of them prospered, but many more fought poverty, poor living and working conditions, and pervasive discrimination.