Question 4: Contentions Over Reconstruction And Ultimate Its Success?
Final Exam Question 4: Contentions over Reconstruction and Ultimate its Success?
First, do you think that Lincoln would have fared better in his dealings with Congress than did his successor, Andrew Johnson? How would Lincoln have behaved differently from Johnson? How did the South’s actions influence the controversies and the actions of the federal government? Abraham Lincoln would have handled Reconstruction more successfully than Andrew Johnson. Specifically, Lincoln understood the moral, political and legal responsibility of enforcing laws like the Reconstruction Acts. He would not opposed laws from a collaboration among Republican leaders in response to Southern resistance like his successor Andrew Johnson. Disagreements over who handles Reconstruction, The best way to reconstruct the states and the integration of newly freed slaves into society would not have disappeared if Lincoln had survived …show more content…
Radicals, Moderates and Conservatives united against Southern resistance through the creation of these amendments. This unification because of violence like the massacre in Tennessee would have occurred despite the absence of Andrew Johnson (Prince pgs, 15, 78-79). In contrast, Lincoln would have supported the Republican desire for federal military intervention in the south through the Reconstruction Acts. His previous orders to execute confederate prisoners for the murder of Union soldiers shows Lincoln would not have tolerated these acts of violence like President Johnson (CP pg, 235). In spite of supporting the compromises of his fellow Republicans, Lincoln would not have supported the radical confiscation and redistribution of land. Government seizure of rebel land would violate the Fifth Amendment and the concept that U.S. citizens were not responsible for a relatives
First, do you think that Lincoln would have fared better in his dealings with Congress than did his successor, Andrew Johnson? How would Lincoln have behaved differently from Johnson? How did the South’s actions influence the controversies and the actions of the federal government? Abraham Lincoln would have handled Reconstruction more successfully than Andrew Johnson. Specifically, Lincoln understood the moral, political and legal responsibility of enforcing laws like the Reconstruction Acts. He would not opposed laws from a collaboration among Republican leaders in response to Southern resistance like his successor Andrew Johnson. Disagreements over who handles Reconstruction, The best way to reconstruct the states and the integration of newly freed slaves into society would not have disappeared if Lincoln had survived …show more content…
Radicals, Moderates and Conservatives united against Southern resistance through the creation of these amendments. This unification because of violence like the massacre in Tennessee would have occurred despite the absence of Andrew Johnson (Prince pgs, 15, 78-79). In contrast, Lincoln would have supported the Republican desire for federal military intervention in the south through the Reconstruction Acts. His previous orders to execute confederate prisoners for the murder of Union soldiers shows Lincoln would not have tolerated these acts of violence like President Johnson (CP pg, 235). In spite of supporting the compromises of his fellow Republicans, Lincoln would not have supported the radical confiscation and redistribution of land. Government seizure of rebel land would violate the Fifth Amendment and the concept that U.S. citizens were not responsible for a relatives