Examine the cartoon and read the annotation. Then respond with a brief essay giving your personal reaction to Johnson's approach to Reconstruction. Present at least three specific points in your analysis.

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there is no cartoon attached or another reference, we can say that the question is probably referring to the cartoon called "Running the Machine," of 1864.

My personal reaction to Johnson's approach to Reconstruction is that President Jhonson could have done a little more and been more stern in the application of Reconstruction's original purpose.

In a similar approach to President Lincolns's approach, Jhonson gave leeway to Southern states to do Reconstruction as they considered better. So Southerners still had some people working in their large plantations and black people did not have the same rights as the whites in that region of the country. Indeed, southern states approved the Jim Crow laws and the black codes that racially segregated African Americans.

That is why Radical Republicans in Congress did not support Jhonson's plan. Radical Republicans demanded a more severe punishment to the Confederate States.

b - those executed came from every social and economic class