For African Americans in the South, life after slavery was a world transformed. Gone were the brutalities and indignities of slave life, the whippings and sexual assaults, the selling and forcible relocation of family members, the denial of education, wages, legal marriage, homeownership, and more. African Americans celebrated their newfound freedom both privately and in public jubilees.
There were many actions and characteristics of Teddy Roosevelt that contributed to his reputation as the first modern president, but one of the biggest was that his set aside land for national parks.
