Question

Points of contention in the reconstruction debate centered around all of the following except:

a. how seceded southern states were readmitted into the union
b. how the union and the confederacy would resolve the political issues that existed between the two
c. how the union adapted to the newly freed slave population
d. how the south would be rebuilt

Answer 1

All of the points are valid except for b, as the union and the confederacy resolution was not a center point of discussion.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. How the Union and the Confederacy would resolve the political issues that existed between the two was not a point of contention during Reconstruction.

Step-by-step explanation:

Reconstruction was the period that went from 1865 to 1877, in which the southern states that left the United States in 1860/61 were reintegrated into the nation.

The "reconstruction" provided among other things for the liberation of the slaves, so that African-Americans had the right to vote in 1867 for the first time.

The leaders in the north agreed that the end of the war meant more than just the end of the fighting. It had to encompass the two war aims: Confederate nationalism had to be pushed back completely and all kinds of slavery had to be eliminated. The way there was however controversial. The questions of the intensity of Union oversight to which the South should be subject and the processes by which the Southern States should be reintegrated into the Union polarized the society of the North.

The truth is that, once the Civil War ended, the conditions were imposed by the Union, that is to say, the claims of the Confederacy were not taken into account, since it had lost the war and had nothing to claim. Therefore, the differences between both sides were not a matter of debate during Reconstruction, since they were considered settled through the unionist victory.