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1. Who is to be elected in political positions (south)
-southern officials who did not actively cause violence or were relatively unimportant
-who was to be pardoned the president from the wealthy elite
-how would congress react to confederate leaders being reelected in congress
2. How is the south's agriculture sector continue
-with the loss of slaves, many plantations and institutions will crumble from losing their primary source of labor
-will they transition to industrial labor? (northern help)
3. How to enforce the 13th amendment and legal constrictions (black codes)
-violent racial events within the south
-many "free black men" were in situations no better than being enslaved
4. How to address/pay for damages caused by civil war
-battlefields
-public property destroyed
-collateral damage
-emotional dama'
5. Who maintains power in congress
-seats northerners vs south

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- Reunifiying the South to the Union and making sure they are able to keep it stable a long with a thriving economy
- Deciding what rights and freedoms African Americans will recieve
-After the assassination of Lincoln political chaos and even more political tension between the radical and moderate republicans.
- What to do with the federal confiscated land from the war

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-The war left hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, homeless, and hungry. As Sherman marched through the South, former slaves followed the soldiers seeking food and shelter.
-Southern beliefs are still strong leading to racism and discrimination towards African Americans.
-Former slaves needed to find work and a way to make a living in order to support themselves and their families.
-Confederacy needed new government officials.
-How will the economy be effected by cotton production and how will it keep being produced at the same rate as previous years.

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- Southern money was worth almost nothing
- The debate over African American rights
- Debate over the amount of punishment on the South
- Who can be a part of congress
- Rebuilding Southern towns
- Finding jobs and housing for former slaves

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-A recently divided nation with very strong countering beliefs.
-South losing money for the nation because of emancipation.
-Trying to compromise with the south while remaining in charge.
-Complications with the state's government.
-How the former slaves can live in harmony with everyone else.

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- The large population of newly freed slaves
- housing?
- work?
- land?
- reunition with separated families?
- voting rights?
- What to do with southern plantations?
- who will work on the plantations that
propel the entire Southern economy
- What do with the land government took from the confederacy?
- give to freed slaves?
- return to confederate owners?
- What to do with past confederate officers/officials
- are they to be punished?
- can they run for office?

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-How adding former slaves to the labor industry will affect the labor of white men.
-How agriculture in the South will be affected by loss of labor.
-After having the same political views for so long, it will be hard to accept new political ideas.
-How to organize the seats in the House of Reps. after recognizing former slaves as citizens.
-How to make up money lost in war, especially after rejecting war debt.
-How adding African Americans as citizens will affect education.

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-Black people's right in this new society
-What to do with federal land confiscated
-Wealthy and southern officials that do not get pardoned
-Racism towards black people specifically from Southerners
-Political tension between Southerners in Congress and republicans
-Rebuilding in general, like literally rebuilding
-Finding work for Southern plantation owners that no longer have workers
-Finding work for now freed black people
-Where do we get money for the reconstruction?
-Appeasing the radical republicans who are upset

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- Freedman had trouble finding work
- Southern civilians still treated African Americans as if they were slaves
- Confederates needed new government officials
- Settle social tensions between the Confederacy and Union
- Building the military back up
- Figure out what to do with plantation land

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-African Americans finding work
- the south finding a new industry to work from
-rebuilding railroads and all transportation
-fixing the southern currency
- rebuilding towns and buildings
-rebuilding southern government
- defining what makes you a citizen and what gives you voting rights
-fixing the agricultural industry and how to provide humane labor
-refugee crisis: providing education to African Americans and schools for African Americans.

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-The south had to rebuild their economy after the emancipation of the slaves. They had relied on the slaves for labor so there was a labor shortage.
-Deciding how the south would re-enter the union and how to reconstruct the government.
-Deciding on rights for newly free African Americans
-reelecting members of congress