1. What were the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War?3. How did the white South's intransigence and President Johnson's political bungling open the way for the congressional Republican program of military Reconstruction?
3. How did the white South's intransigence and President Johnson's political bungling open the way for the congressional Republican program of military Reconstruction?
President Ulysses S. Grant
6. Why did Reconstruction apparently fail so badly? Was the failure one of immediate political circumstances, or was it more deeply rooted in the history of American sectional and race relations?