Moderate Reconstruction Vs Radical Reconstruction

1. What is the difference between a. and a. Radical reconstruction aims to address social, political, and economic equality through legislative efforts. For example, socially they tried to address it by offering food and housing to slaves and providing better education for them to get a better life. Politically, the 14th Amendment helped them get equal rights and were protected under the law, while the 15th Amendment gave the right for colored people to vote. Economically there was a sharecropping system that made ex-slaves dependent on landowners having to work at the same farm they would back on before the war and would be usually stuck there either way due to the fact they needed a home and working was their way of renting. Although these advancements tried to help them, the Reconstruction fell short mainly because of racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The group
Primary methods that the US government and individual reformers used were military campaigns, treaties, and different policies to recognize and address the native American threat to westward settlement. Military campaigns, like the Battle of Little Bighorn, provided temporary hope for the Native Americans but ended up having a violent outcome, but what happens at the wounded knee ends of the Indian wars which marks the end of the Native American resistance (Stanfield, Westward Expansion 10:26). There were treaties that would often move Native Americans to reservations but promises to them were usually broken bringing distrust, the Dawes Act was aimed at dividing Native Americans from their tribal lands and giving them their own individual places and teaching them different about Christianity. But this also means that this will result in significant land loss. Reformers were focused on education through stuff like boarding schools, and the schools tried to assimilate Native American children into their culture trying to change the future