Reconstruction is largely seen as a failure, and many historians believe this was primarily because the South for so long had been dependent on slaves that in one swift motion the South's entire livelihood shifted. This dramatic shift was too much for the Southerners to absorb at once, and harsh Jim Crow laws sprang up.
Were confirmation needed that the American public is in a sour mood, the 2010 midterm elections provided it. As both pre-election<span> and </span>post-election<span> surveys made clear, Americans are not only strongly dissatisfied with the state of the economy and the direction in which the country is headed, but with government efforts to improve them. As the Pew Research Center’s </span>analysis of exit poll data<span> concluded, “the outcome of this year’s election represented a repudiation of the political status quo…. Fully 74% said they were either angry or dissatisfied with the federal government, and 73% disapproved of the job Congress is doing.”</span>
A traditional story about travels or adventures can be Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. It speaks of a group of pirates in search of a lost treasure and certainly includes travels and adventures.
