Describe the process of Reconstruction following the Civil War, including Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional Reconstruction and which plan for Reconstruction eventually emerged. In formulating your answer consider the roles of the following: Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Booker T. Washington, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Fourteenth Amendment and its implications, the "Redeemers," Jim Crow Laws and the Compromise of 1877. Explain why Reconstruction ended and assess whether it succeeded or failed in achieving freedom and
independence for formerly enslaved people.