Question

Points of contention in the Reconstruction debate centered around all of the following EXCEPT:

a. how seceded Southern states were readmitted into the Union
b. how the Union and the Confederacy would resolve the political issues that existed between the two
c. how the Union adapted to the newly freed slave population
d. how the South would be rebuilt

Answer 1

"d. how the South would be rebuilt" would be the best option from the list, since the main debate was over whether or not federal troops would need to stay in the are to enforce the new laws, or whether the South should be trusted to re-build itself.