The hardest challenge was having reconstruction, along with the assassination of Lincoln. Not only that but there was not enough jobs for when the men came back from war, then that started the women's suffrage movement.
World War I was an international conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918. Even though the U.S. did not join the war until its last year, the country faced many challenges after it.
The war changed the role of the U.S. from a debtor to a lender, specially in Latin America. On the other hand, employment was a big challenge because immigration slowed down and created a labor shortage in the Northern states. The war took 52% of the gross domestic product.
The war also led to the Great Depression because of all the loans provided to the UK that was after wartime reparations from Germany; this system stopped working because of Germany's hyperinflation and stopped the period known as The Roaring Twenties.
Because, if you read closely and carefully it says "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation chronicled the early days of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and had its premiere at Woodrow Wilson’s White House in 1915. The statements that describe the movie are as follow:
The movie depicted African-Americans as unworthy of participation in government and dangerous to white women.
The movie glorified the Ku Klux Klan not as racist terrorists, but as heroes protecting virtuous white southerners from "uncivilized" blacks.
