American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 15: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Essay

1
Compare and contrast the several plans for Reconstruction: Lincoln's plan, the Wade-Davis Bill, Johnson's presidential Reconstruction, and the congressional plan. Consider provisions, motives, goals, and results. What forces and attitudes kept a more radical plan from being adopted?
2
Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction. Given the context of the times, explain what if anything could have been done to avoid the failures and expand the successes. What groundwork was laid for the future?
3
Although many changes had occurred by 1900, the South remained an impoverished agricultural region, lagging well behind the rest of the nation. Describe the economic changes in the South, and assess why they were not adequate to bring the old Confederacy into the national mainstream, as some of the region's spokespersons had hoped.
4
Explain the ways in which the Southern white establishment was able to evade the spirit of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. What alternative paths of accommodation and resistance did black leaders propose to this rise of Jim Crow?
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