, please describe based on your understanding, what were some of the major failures and successes of Reconstruction.

Reconstruction Many nations that have a civil war end up having more civil wars. The reasons for the originating conflict are often unresolved. In the case of the United States, the epic strug- gle from 1861 to 1865 did not lead to another full-blown military encounter. Instead, the states that had seceded were quickly reincorporated into the legal fold of the nation; Confederate leaders and civilians were reconstituted as citizens; and the key political problems that caused the war -slavery and its future in the territories and states-were resolved. Three new constitutional amendments transformed the nation's founding document to make certain of this final point. The questions for Reconstruction were many, but the central ones were how would the United States avoid another violent war? What would be the status of people formerly owned b other people? What would be the status of those who had committed treason against the government? How would the nation develop economically and territorially into the West now that slavery was not an option? Even before the Civil War ended, President Lincoln and congressional leaders puz- zled over how best to reintegrate the people of the South into the Union. Before he was assassinated, President Lincoln proposed a "10 percent plan," which would have allowed a state government to reestablish itself once one-tenth of those who had voted in 1860 took an oath of loyalty to the United States. Radicals in Congress were appalled by the seem ingly lenient plan and pushed through their own bill, which increased the proportion to one-half of the voters who were required to swear that they had never supported secession. Lincoln's assassination cut short this increasingly scathing debate and drastically altered the mood of Reconstruction. Political disagreements over Reconstruction policy were vast, and the strategies advo- cated were so varied that Reconstruction took a crooked road. As approaches to rebuilding the South shifted, the hopes among some to transform Southem society grew and then were dashed. Despite important legal precedents that were made in the era, many of the social, political, and economic conventions that had characterized antebellum society endured after Reconstruction ended. Eventually, the racial system of segregation came to replace the sys- tem of slavery Although people differed on what was the best policy for Reconstruction, everyone agreed that the Confederate states were in dire straits and the primary goal of