Please answer one of the following questions:
Many people believe the failure of Reconstruction was primarily a failure of leadership; how might of the outcome of Reconstruction been different had Lincoln lived?
Why did white southerners (and groups like the KKK) use terror as a weapon in their journey to regain political control of the South?
In 1865 the South began to enact Black Codes targeting freed slaves; how can this action be considered a turning point in Reconstruction?