Why did Congress object to Lincoln's wartime plan for reconstruction? (pp. 420–425)

How did the North respond to the passage of black codes in the southern states? (pp. 426–429)

Why did Johnson urge the southern states to reject the Fourteenth Amendment? (pp. 429–434)

What brought the elements of the South's Republican coalition together? (pp. 434–439)

How did the Supreme Court undermine the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments? (pp. 440–445)