Angelica Handa - Question 1:
  What did Americans (Northern and Southern, black and white) think of the government during Reconstruction – military occupation of the South, civil rights laws, and the president’s plans? 


According to the article, Our Country is Now in a Disturbed Condition, the citizens thought that the government was doing wrong. The government was in a very poor state, and was not following the constitution. Many thought as well that the President's plans weren't right because what he was doing was violating the constitution. "Mr. Johnson disregards the Constitution and instead decides to put military governments over the states. And men are being tried for their lives before the military courts instead of the civil courts. This directly violates of the Constitution since these men being tried are not connected to the army." This quote explains that President Johnson cared more about the military more than he did the states. Also, many people's lives are at stake in military courts instead of the civil courts, and they don't have anything to do with the military.