Well this is the first time I've ever done a "blog". I really am not sure what to expect out of this but I'm going to take a ride on the wild side. Here we GO! After reading the the Post-Bellum packet and churning over all of the information in it i decided that I, as a reader, really enjoy the writers that succeeded the Civil War. As for some questions that arose from this reading I couldn't help but ask myself what my thoughts were on the thought of these few, but deep, questions.
What would I have done if I was African American and in the situation that the majority of African Americans were after the war?
What would have happened if the transcontinental railroad was never assembled?
These questions are simple on the outside but dive deep into the depths of the possibilites of them and you may find answers that you wouldn't have thought you would come up with. I spent a couple days thinking on the railroads (I recently grew a fascination with the transcontinental railroad because of
AMC's Hell On Wheels) and came up with two possibilites, in my opinion. First of all, native americans would be a more prominent aspect to the American present instead of just points in history. Secondly, California and its surrounding states in the west would not be as developed and populated as they are today. Time would have played more of a factor and equipment for mining, as an example, would not have been so easy to transport from coast to coast.
