Free recall is the mental process of retrieving information from the past. It is a type of recall in which a person may recall a list of information in any order. It does not require the individual to recall a list of information or a series of events accordingly. A individual may recall information randomly or in any pattern in a free recall.
For instance, in a free recall, an individual given a list of information about the events that occurred during the Cold War in a sequential order can recall the events randomly without following the sequential order when asked about it.
Similarly, writing down the names of all twentieth-century U.S. presidents from memory is an activity of free recall because the individual is not following any sequential order while writing the names of all twentieth-century U.S. presidents.
The primary difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction plans was that the presidential plan was far more progressive, while many in Congress wanted to punish the South.
