How would you have handled Reconstruction?

Like, as in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War.

I would do it well.

Declare martial law and F the KKK up.

As a citizen, or as the one in charge?

I wouldn't. They have to learn to stand on their own.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I wouldn't. They have to learn to stand on their own.

Personally, I'd send Federal troops into the South, forbid former Confederates from voting, and set up massive programs for helping minority races while taxing the plantation owners for it.

A good question actually, and I havn´t got a clue.

I would have outlawed humidity.

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Personally, I'd send Federal troops into the South, forbid former Confederates from voting, and set up massive programs for helping minority races while taxing the plantation owners for it.

I would have confiscated all land owned by slave owners and distributed it to the slaves they owned. I would also not allow states to discriminate based on race in government issues.

It wasn't the state governments that posed the big problem at that time, it was groups like the white league and KKK that worked outside the law.

Originally posted by RocasAtoll
I would have confiscated all land owned by slave owners and distributed it to the slaves they owned. I would also not allow states to discriminate based on race in government issues.

Originally posted by King Kandy
It wasn't the state governments that posed the big problem at that time, it was groups like the white league and KKK that worked outside the law.

Originally posted by RocasAtoll
They became the problem with black codes and Jim Crow laws. But yeah, private organizations like those who committed violence should have been put down by government soldiers at the start of hostilities.

Grant sent troops to combat it, too little too late, and he should have declared them as enemy combatants as well, which would have meant they wouldn't have had to go through hung southern civilian courts but military court instead.