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4.  How would you have handled Reconstruction differently?

4.  How would you have handled Reconstruction differently?

:I would not have used so much military force. Andrew Johnson sent too many soldiers into the South to keep control. Although some military enforcement was needed, I believe that Johnson overdid it. Everyone was sick of war. Soldiers were ready to go home and families had been broken in pieces for way too long.   (Jenna N.)

:I would not have used so much military force. Andrew Johnson sent too many soldiers into the South to keep control. Although some military enforcement was needed, I believe that Johnson overdid it. Everyone was sick of war. Soldiers were ready to go home and families had been broken in pieces for way too long. (Jenna N.)

 

:First I wouldn't have been so hard on the South. The southern states had already seceded once so no telling if they would have done so again, and also i think that it would have made a difference on how the two got along. I also would have tried harder to stop the KKK, because what they were doing was terrible and it needed to be stopped for good.  (Amanda S.)

5.  Abraham Lincoln was [[homeschooled]].  Do you see any characteristics in him that might have reflected his homeschooling, such as his independent thinking?

5.  Abraham Lincoln was [[homeschooled]].  Do you see any characteristics in him that might have reflected his homeschooling, such as his independent thinking?