After reviewing your Instructor's Guidance and completing the weekly reading assignments (including those in the resource section below), please post a substantive discussion post of at least 200 words that analyzes the period of Reconstruction using the following questions as the basis of your analysis:
1. Were the goals of Radical Reconstruction feasible ones?
2. Is it possible to transform a society drastically by government action, or might attempts to do so prove counterproductive?
3. Would a more gradualist approach to extending rights to and establishing freedom for African Americans have been more successful?
4. What would be the costs and dangers of such an approach?