Document 1: After the War After the War More than fourteen hundred days of war. More than six hundred thousand military and civilian deaths, from the revolver, rifle, and cannon shot, from sword and saber slashes, from starvation in sieges, from disease. As for the battle-scarred and mind-marred, no one knows the count. And several million black people were getting a grip on liberty. Most were homeless, moneyless, and illiterate. Many were enduring the agony of family—brother, sister, husband, wife, and children—sold away before the war and perhaps lost to them forever. Many had lost pieces of themselves—ear, finger, half a foot, a smooth back—punishment for not working fast enough or hard enough, or for having tried to escape. America reeked of hatred. So many blacks hated whites for generations of slavery. So many whites, former slaveholders, and not, hated blacks for asserting their equal humanity. Pro-Confederate Southerners hated fellow Southerners who had supported the Union as much as they hated Yankees, who carved their names, their regiments in Southern trees, accosted Southern Belles, raided and ransacked Southern silver, livestock and fowl; and torched Southern elds. 1) What does this document tell you about the aftermath of the Civil War?

2) Based on this document, what will be the biggest challenge for the US?