What became a point of conflict during Reconstruction whether or not Confederate states should rejoin the Union whether or not to rebuild the South who would be in charge of f?

Answer 1

One of the major point of conflict during the Reconstruction was that of the electoral rights of blacks. Almost all white Southerners were determined to prevent them from obtaining decisive electoral power of even any power at all. Andrew Johnson's more or less open attitude to back his white countrymen led the President and the Congress to get at loggerheads. When the Fourteenth Amendment was promulgated by the Congress, Johnson urged the Southern States not to ratify it, if it were to become law. That was of no avails, because the amendment became law. But the Congress was so outraged for the presidential opposition that in March 1867 it passed the Reconstruction Act, which was a diktat imposing to the South its version of the postwar settlement. The former Confederate States ,short of Tennessee, were grouped into five military districts, each ruled by a military governor. The states have to set up conventions in order to amend their Constitution so as to conform with the Constitution of the United States, including the Fourteenth Amendment. After carrying out these stages, the states could be readmitted to the Union and to be represented in the Congress.