Discussion questions that need response.

1. Describing how Reconstruction can be seen as a tug-of-war between the North, the South, the president, and Congress over who controlled the future of the country. Who do you think won each struggle?

2. Discussing the outbreak of lynching across the South after Reconstruction. What were its causes? How did whites at the time justify it? Discuss the development of the anti-lynching movement among African American and white women. How does this violence exemplify “mob thinking” in the late 19th-century South?

Note: I’ll also need some references.