Reconstruction Congressional Hearings

Write a post that responds IN CHARACTER based on the person you were assigned in class(Sen. Fessenden, Sen Grimes, Rep. Stevens, Rep. Conkling,or Rep. Rogers)to each of the follwoing 4 questions concerning how Reconstruction should be handled. Remember to use the information sheets to guide your responses.
1. What specific rights and resources should freed slave have?
2. In terms of the citizens of a state, who should have the most power over them, the states or the national government?
3. What conditions should be placed on the southern states before they can come back into the Union and have representatives in Congress?
4. Which branch of the national government should have control over reconstructing the south- the legislative (Congress) of the executive (president, etc.)?