“…of a Union held together forever, of a North and South able to work together, of slavery extirpated, and sectional rivalries confined, of a permanent banishment of the fear of vaunting appeals to state sovereignty, backed by armed force…”

– Dr. Mark Summers, historian

The quotation above reflects the goals of ______________

The perpetrators of the Compromise of 1877

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The drafting of the Reconstruction Amendments

Reconstruction