i have to write an essay on was reconstruction a success?

Question

i have to write about the various plans from president lincoln, congress, and president johnson.
pls help me

Answer 1

The links below contrast the plans of Lincoln (generally lenient), Johnson (even MORE lenient) and the plan of the Radical Republicans who finally gained the power to implement their program in 1867 (after voter anger against Johnson's seeming to let Confederate leaders off the hook).

Radical Reconstruction held sway, and in many ways made remarkable gains, until Southern opposition (including lynching of prominent Republcan leaders, esp. blacks) weaknesses in the Grant administration and the Panic off 1873 weakened their hand and led the North to tire of maintaining a military presence in the South to enforce this ambitious program.

By 1876 Grant had removed most troops, and his successor promised to remove the rest, as he did in 1877. (One mistake it the last piece of this. There is a view that Hayes actually made a shady deal to gain Democratic acquiescence in his taking office after the disputed election of 1876, but the so-called "Compromise of 1876" has never been proven, and the ONLY supposed elements of it ever implemented --like the troop withdrawal-- were things Hayes had already SAID he would do during the campaign)


http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/highschool/pjordan/ushonors/Regents%20Review/Manifest%20Destiny%20to%20Reconstruct/reconstruction.html
(see chart)

http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/impeachment1.html
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=545
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/reconstruction/summary.html
(for more details follow the other links in the drop down box at the head of the article)

On the problems with the theory of a "Compromise of 1876" see
http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/president/display.asp?id=511&subj=president
and the book by Roy Morris Jr., Fraud of the Century : Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 (2003) --despite the title, Morris points out how Tilden's majority in the contested states was the result of ballot-stuffing, threats and attacks that drove away black Republican voters, etc , and he is NOT convinced that Hayes agreed to any "corrupt bargain"

For more details of this period --including its successes-- and a brief discussion of how historians' views of Reconstruction have change over the past century, check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction (especially sections 5 and 7).

The modern "standard" works on Reconstruction are by Eric Foner. Civil War historian James MacPherson also included a fine section on the period in his book, *Ordeal by Fire*. (His classic civil war history *Battlecy of Freedom* is a better read, but leaves out some helpful material, including coverage of the Reconstruction period.)

Answer 2

Luckly I just took a history class last summer.
Unfortunately I dont remember much. Here is what I do remember.

Here is what I do remember. Please note this may not be true, but this was my professors view. Once upon a time, a long long time ago, we had a president named Lincoln. He was neither for or against slaverly. All he wanted was the north and south to reunite. If he could do it without freeing slaves, he was up to it. If he had to free some slaves, he was up for it. If he had to free all of them, same story.

Here's where it gets interesting. Johnson and the congress really didnt agree much.

To tell you the truth, I shouldnt be answering this question. I have no idea. I thought I did but I was wrong.

Answer 3

Reconsturccion could not be finisched because President Lincoln was assaninated, and after his deat the Republican stoppend the plans for reconstruction see wh.glencoe.com US History