HIST 2057 Chapter : Reconstruction
Document Summary
Radical or black: bad , white america"s view of reconstruction. Dominated by blacks: lee could"ve had his southern army go into the mts and prolong war for. 50 yrs: at moment of emancipation, blacks could"ve attacked whites and killed white southerners. Didn"t happen: north could"ve came to the south and hang southerners, when indians rebelled, they hang them in large numbers, take southerner"s lands and give them to blacks. Small number of republican party: white southerners generally oppose reconstruction, african americans from north or slaves. President reconstruciont (1865-66): the failure of self-reconstruction: did too little to end white supremacy. Unfinished: gave blacks more rights than ever before still, requirements of the south, lincoln"s plan, lincoln doesn"t ask for much. Making the policy as the civil war was going on. Didn"t want to make southerners feel that they shouldn"t end war bc of the consequences.
