Based on today’s lesson answer the following question. How did the Congresses POV on Reconstruction differ from the President’s POV, why do you think this is? Use two pieces of documental evidence to support your claim.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Mee why did the government control the news and information americans received about the war? to eliminate propaganda that unfairly targeted immigrants to influence public opinion in support of the war effort to inform americans about troop movements and major battles

How did the love and black elite gain financial security during the antebellum period