1. Abraham Lincoln and Henry Winter Davis disagree on which branch of the government should have authority over Reconstruction. If you had to engineer a Reconstruction strategy based on a compromise between the two plans, what details would you include in such a proposal?
2. Andrew Johnson asserts that the United States and the Constitution are inextricably linked and that destroying one will cause the other to also perish. Do you agree with his opinion? Why or why not?
3. Gabor S. Boritt and Avery Craven examine President Lincoln’s reconstruction plan in their viewpoints. After reading their selections, do you think that Lincoln would have successfully rebuilt the United States had he not been assassinated? Why or why not"