Please answer ONE of the questions listed below and respond to two classmates. To receive full credit for your posts you must respond to classmates who answered different questions than you chose.
For example, if you answer question one, you could respond to students who answered questions two and three. In addition, make sure that your answer and responses are fully developed. You should try to write several paragraphs that total approximately 250 words for your initial response, and a paragraph or two for each response. If you post late your grade will be reduced. You need to cite in your post to clarify where you obtained your information. Initial responses should contain multiple citations and replies should contain at least one. For discussion board purposes, you can use parenthetical citations when referring to the textbook AmericanYawp page numebr or Author or title of primary source.
Please start a new thread for your initial response and include the discussion question number and a brief description of the question in your post.
- To what extent did Lincolns wartime plan for reconstruction reflect the concerns of newly freed slaves? What were some of the challenges facing reconstruction efforts?
- Describe President Johnsons reconstruction plan and the ways in which it aligned and differed from Lincolns.
- Recount the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment, and why President Johnson advised southern states to reject it. Explain the terms of radical reconstruction and how Johnsons interventions led some in Congress to seek his impeachment.
- Describe the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment, and explain why some womens rights advocates were dissatisfied with it.
- How did politics and economic concerns shape reconstruction in the South? Describe how congressional reconstruction altered life in the South.
- Why did northern support for reconstruction collapse? Explain why the North abandoned reconstruction, including the role of Grants troubled presidency and the election of 1877 in this abandonment.
