American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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1. That the defeat and devastation of the South presented the nation with severe social, economic, and political problems.

2. How Radical Reconstruction changed the South but fell short of the full transformation needed to secure equality for the freedmen.

3. That white society and the federal government lacked the will to enforce effectively most of the constitutional and legal guarantees acquired by blacks during Reconstruction.

4. How the policies of the Grant administration moved beyond Reconstruction matters to foreshadow issues of the late nineteenth century.

5. How white leaders reestablished economic and political control of the South and sought to modernize the region through industrialization.

6. How the race question continued to dominate Southern life.

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