-Where should the freed people go?
-Should the government help the freed people establish themselves? (reparations, "40 acres and a mule")
-Should the government severely punish former slave owners?
-Should the government compensate the former slave owners for confiscating their "property"?
-Should the government help the South rebuild at all?
-What are the rights of the freed black men and women?
-What to do with the Confederate leaders?
-Taxes?