Question

Below are four questions that define the challenges in Reconstruction. There are no easy answers, but what would you suggest for each? Remember, while you don’t want to let the South go unpunished, but you can’t punish Southerners too much or they will resist federal authority.

1. Who should lead Reconstruction?

2. What do ex-confederate states have to do before they can rejoin the Union?

3. To what extent do you punish ex-confederates?

4. What do you do regarding the freedmen in the South?

Answer 1

1. Andrew Johnson ( he was the leader of the reconstruction)
2. As Southern states applied for readmission to the Union, they were required to submit state constitutions that ratified the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. Grant also kept soldiers in the former Confederacy.
3. To the point of Amnesty, which was exactly what Abraham Lincoln did to the former confederates during the reconstruction of the south period.
4. You are to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans ( this is after the civil war, not during).

Explanation: I learned all of this last year, so I'm pretty familiar with the topic.