Read this presentation on changes occurring during Reconstruction. Then, use the information you have learned from the article and throughout the lesson to complete this charting activity. Three topics are provided; you can include up to two more of interest. Include informed opinion about how and whether the changes occurring in the South represented successes or failures in Reconstruction. Then, write an editorial evaluating progress (or lack thereof). Be sure your editorial is clear in its stance, and cite specific examples to support your opinion.

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The question is incomplete because it doesn't provide the article. However, taking into consideration what happened during Reconstruction, we can say the following.

Regarding the economy, Reconstruction aimed to transform the economy in the South, from the use of slaves to work the farm fields to a free labor economy that was the model of the economy in the northern states. Unfortunately, it did not happen as planned.

Regarding politics, although the Emancipation Proclamation prohibited slavery in the United States, white southern politicians rejected the proclamation in real life. Indeed, the South created legislation such as the Jim Crow laws or the black codes, that suppressed African American rights.

Education. This, of course, affected education in the South because racial segregation impacted schools in that whites attended schools for them and did not accept black students.

My editorial is the following.

Reconstruction did not run as planned.

US President Abraham Lincoln gave leeway to southern states to do Reconstruction at their pace. Although radical Republicans in Congress demanded a harsh punishment to southern states for all the damage created during the Civil War, Lincoln, and later, President Jhonson, decided that the southern states would have ample margin to do Reconstruction under their conditions.

And that was a mistake. White southerners created the oppressive Jim Crow laws and the black codes, and African Americans saw how their civil rights were limited and they were the target of violent racial attacks by supremacist groups suck as the Ku Klux Klan.