To what extent is it valid to claim that Reconstruction was a ...

[Jipu 123]

Question 1

After achieving independence, most of the nations of Southeast Asia modeled their new governments on
 
  a. the Soviet system.
  b. the Maoist organization.
  c. their pre-colonial traditions.
  d. Bismarckian Germany.
  e. Western democratic models.

Question 2

To what extent is it valid to claim that Reconstruction was a failure? To what extent was it a success?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[lou]

Answer 1

e

Answer 2

The answers students come up with will depend largely on how they define success and failure. If Reconstruction's success is defined in terms of fundamentally remaking the South, then it was a failure. By 1877 there were no Republican governments; those who had been in power before the Civil War were, by and large, still in power. Although legally enfranchised, blacks were either not voting or were being defrauded out of their votes. Nevertheless, Reconstruction did enable long-term changes to occur. The passage of the Fourteenth and (to a lesser extent) Fifteenth amendments made the civil rights movement possible.

[Jipu 123]

Gracias!

[jackie]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it