1. According to Schurz, what was the main obstacle to a smooth process of Reconstruction (putting the nation back together after the Civil War)?
2. How did the racial views of white Southerners influence their responses to emancipation? Why did they almost universally insist that "You cannot make the negro work, without physical compulsion"?
3. Schurz reported that white Southerners had "a desire to preserve slavery in its original forms as much and as long as possible." What evidence of that desire did Schurz report?