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Reconstruction Questions and Answers

In what ways was Reconstruction a failure?

What was the main difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?

Why Was The Radical Republican Plan For Reconstruction Considered Radical

After the Civil War, should the South have been treated as a defeated nation or rebellious state?

What are the similarities and differences between the three plans for Reconstruction? (Lincoln’s, Johnson’s, and Congress’s plans.) Why were they different?

How did Northerners feel about Reconstruction?

What Were The 3 Major Issues Of Reconstruction?

What were the strengths and weaknesses of Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?

Compare in detail the three Reconstruction Plans: Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan, and the Congressional Reconstruction Plan.

What were the goals of Reconstruction following the Civil War? Were these goals accomplished?

Failures Of Reconstruction

What are some political, social, and economic successes during Reconstruction?

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Radical Republicans' plan and Andrew Johnson's plan?

Do you think Reconstruction was a success or failure?

How did Andrew Johnson's plan for the Reconstruction compare to Congress's plan?

What was the goal of Reconstruction?

How did the South after Reconstruction compare to the South before the Civil War? 

Was Reconstruction A Success

What were the major problems facing the nation in April 1865? What factors stood in the way of a solution to those problems? Provide examples (American Issues, volume 1, to 1877).

What major challenges faced the federal government in reconstructing the South after the Civil War during the period from 1865 to 1877?

Why did Radical Reconstruction in America ultimately fail ? 

Compare Presidential Reconstruction with Congressional Reconstruction.

Describe the major differences between President Lincoln’s and Congress’s plans for Reconstruction.

What is Radical Reconstruction?

Did Reconstruction help or hurt the South and why?  

Explain the significance that Reconstruction had on the nation's future.

How did the South lose the Civil War but manage to win the peace? Use examples.

What caused the confrontation between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction policies?

What problems did Reconstruction resolve? What problems did it fail to resolve?

Why was Radical Reconstruction "radical"?

What differences and similarities were there between the roles of the North and the South during Reconstruction?

How did Congress make certain that Southern states followed the laws of Reconstruction?

Why did many Northerners oppose Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

Why did the Reconstruction Period come to an end?

Did Reconstruction successfully solve the problems caused by slavery and the Civil War?

What Is The History Of The Ku Klux Klan?

Why did Reconstruction fail to bring social and economic equality of opportunity to the former slaves?

How did the Compromise of 1877 impact Reconstruction?

In what ways was life during Reconstruction difficult for African Americans? 

How is sharecropping a reason why Reconstruction was a failure?

Was the Reconstruction Era revolutionary in American history? If so, wouldn't the counter-revolution against it be more significant?

What was the attitude of President Johnson toward the Reconstruction of the South?

What did Andrew Johnson, Radical Republicans, Impeachment, and Congressional Reconstruction have in common?

How did southerners impact reconstruction?

How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans?

Describe the major challenges the federal government faced in reconstructing the South after the Civil War during the period from 1865 to 1877.

Regarding the Reconstruction Era, did the nation achieve the goals desired by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?

Why did Johnson's Reconstruction plan fail?

How did the Wade-Davis Bill's plan for reconstruction differ from Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?  

Why was the issue of currency so important to Americans in 1896? What did they believe was at stake?