HIST 2057 Chapter : History 2057
Document Summary
Reconstruction: how we can invest and heal the wounds. Reconstruction as a national issue: dimensions, relief- shelter, food, think of newly freed slaves needing jobs and shelter, long-range develop, political, have to set up governments that will be loyal to the union. Then the former slaves what role will they play and what should they be allowed to do: constitutional, intertwine with political issues. Presidential reconstruction: lincoln: lincoln"s views, moderate views of the union. He wants to get reconstruction over with a minimum of federal intervention. He was moderate and wanted to be generous to the south because he"s a nice guy. Felt responsibility for the slaughter of civil war where we lost more men than any other war: raised in southern illinois where a lot of immigrants were. There was a segregated society: was a man of his time didn"t think blacks and whites could be equal ever or live together.
