America From 1865

  I)                     1876 Election – after the eight years of the Grant administration (personified by periods of spectacular corrup...

  I)                     1876 Election – after the eight years of the Grant administration (personified by periods of spectacular corruption...

What was the purpose of Reconstruction? Why did Reconstruction go through several different phases? Was one phase more successful than other...

A)      Lincoln’s Plan – for Lincoln, Reconstruction was more of a wartime expediency than a plan to reunite the Union—many of his proposals...