When the telegram was invented people were able to communicate to one another from far distances so... This could have angered the government since they couldn't control the citizens movements and actions
The period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all born in the United States; this broad language included former slaves.
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Following the war art generally moved away from realistic to "interpretational", since many artists were beginning to challenge the status quo of art that had existed for hundreds of years prior.