I think that the reconstruction was a failure. The southerns still want slavery and some still criticize the northerners. Even some of the schools teach that the south won the civil war.Things that are similar between Iraq and America's reconstruction is that they both had destroyed their infrastructure and their economy. They probably both won't recover completely. I think that in the future america socially would be split because the south would still hate the north more or the same as they do now. The south would be driven by plantations and the north by factories.
I think that we should have voter id's because we don't have them then people can pretend to be someone else and sway the vote to the way they want it. Even though it hasn't happened that often, we should still have the id's to prevent it from happening in the future