Wartime Reconstruction

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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT # 1
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Question A
The wartime, presidential and congressional reconstruction had a specific purpose for
fulfilling in the context of the occasion they were exercised. However, some of the stark
differences resulted in conflicts after their execution. Wartime reconstruction, as the name
suggests, took place during the warfare when Lincoln decided that blacks needed to
repatriate. It was a major part of the Proclamation of Amnesty and the Southern whites
vowed for union and abolish slavery. However, it excluded the high-ranking military and
Confederate officials (Sivaram, 2015). Thus, the main aim was simplifying stop wars.
Unlike this, President Andrew Johnson devised the Presidential reconstruction in 1865 at the
end of the Civil War. This freed the Blacks of slavery but they without granting them
political roles. Even the lands were given back to pre-war owners and the Confederates
reinstated their political power due to which Blacks had no hope for economic autonomy
(U.S. History, 2019). This reconstruction plan caused great resentment among the North. The
Blacks had limited occupation and no right to vote which again forced them to be bonded
laborers for plantations.
The Congressional reconstruction brought in mass killings of ex-slaves and adopted the
restrictive Black Code. Congress seized power from Johnson, but the new government
affirmed black rights and equal protection through law. Congress also passed several laws to
restrict presidential power working against its reconstruction program.
Question B
Land redistribution failure resulted from the nation's detainment to provide full citizenship to
the blacks. A common phrase, ‘forty acres and a mule’ echoed throughout after the
Government failed to redistribute the land among the blacks after the Civil War. The federal