The Civil War Part II (Giants of Political Thought & United States at War)

With the surrender of General Lee the nature of American government was severely altered. No more was America a confederation of sovereign states; it was one nation under God. A strong federal structure steered this nation and imposed its will on the conquered South. Colonial America had fought against taxes tariffs and non-representative government; postwar America now seemed to embrace them. This is the story of the results-and the cost-of America's Civil War.