President Truman sent a fleet of ships to "Taiwan" in 1949 to protect it from Red China, since this was during the Cold War, which existed between Soviet Russia (which was communist, as was China) and the United States.
The members of the congress.
Hostile because they often fought and killed each other I think
-- What/how to do the Reconstruction. > How to bring the states back, what punishment - how severe/etc.
<span>-- What to do with the African Americans. > Lincoln only freed the Southern slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation, and it was only a formality. [The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments show how the government dealt with this issue.] </span>
<span>-- How to regulate that the Reconstruction was happening. The South was very belligerent about the Reconstruction - and made its own list of rules (aka Jim Crow Laws) to undermine the rights given to the African Americans by the amendments ^.
I hope I helped a least a bit! :)</span>
Because many farmers were forced to grow cotton instead of a steady food supply
