If you were president of the U.S(the U.S) <History>?

Question

This is job of my dicussion class
I wanna hear your opnion
Give me your opinion and
I will use about your opinion in my class
If you give me some help, Thank you very much :)

1. How would you have help Freedmen, or former slaves.
2.How would you have treated/punished confederate/Southerners.
3. How would you have physically rebuilt or reconstructed the
South.

Answer 1

Hmm mm mm - - - forcefully with a velvet hammer. Most of my methods are tainted by 2007 understanding that out of the way here goes. I would have invited (demanded) leading Negroes & Whites to join me at The White House for a series of dinners launching a series of conferences all withthe goal of bringing people together. I would have made it clear, "WE are One People, we are Americans" and loudly pointed out the fact that a majority of Freedmen/women were Third or Fourth Generation Americans, and as politely but forcefully as possible would intergrate society instead of avoiding the issue for another hundred years.

As for the South - - - - a certain word was bannished from the American Vocabulary one that is still avoided. TREASON. The old carrot & stick bit. Making it known that the Rebelion was Treason, I would make it clear to former Confederates that they could either support Integration NOW and receive generous incentives to rebuild or suffer. And I would have made them suffer. Trust me under my watch Jefferson Davis would have been swinging on a rope.

Oddly enough I would retard the rape of the West, slowing down the Transcontinental Railroad, turning that effort South, well into the 1900s it was easier traveling West by Rail then South, and no one has ever gotten arounjd to a truly innovative levee system for the Missisippi Basin. These sort of projects could have brought blacks & whites together for not only rebuilding the Soutrh but actually improving the equalitry of life for everyone.
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Peace.........

(and if I don't get a thumbs down for calling Jefferson Davis Traitor I will be badly disappointed. Why is he held in higher regad then Lincoln?)

Answer 2

I think that President Lincoln's reconstruction program was the correct course of action. However, I think the federal government should have intervened after reconstruction to prevent the introduction of Jim Crow laws and the defacto disenfranchisement of the Blacks.