How Did The North Or South Who Killed Reconstruction

The United States of America was at the end of the line, disagreements arose everywhere turning brother against brother. Our beloved country broke out in a bloody massacre of the North states against the South, they called it the Civil War. hen it was over and the North won, the bonds weren’t as strong as before and the war had hit the USA harder than expected. President Lincoln made a plan to save our country called REconstruction, he wanted 10% of white southern men to take an oath of loyalty and they were off the hook for almost destroying the country. North or South: Who killed Reconstruction? The definition of reconstruction is the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed. Both Southern resistance and Northern neglect contributed to the death of Reconstruction. However, Northern neglect was the greater problem.
Southern resistance stoppe a lot of progress from happening, people would threaten other people to vote Democratic instead or Radical. For most people a gun pressed to their temple while somebody told them to vote for Democrats or they would be killed is a great reason to vote that way. The KKK was a big problem in the South as well, they would beat people until the followed their will. The KKK hated the Radicals and did everything in their power to try to destroy them.

Northern neglect was the main reason for the death of Reconstruction. Even though Southern resistance was a problem it wasn’t the main reason, the North should’ve known the South was going to retaliate. The North gave the South something they didn’t want and turned their back letting them have something they didn’t want nor know how to use without helping them along. The Northern government was falling apart and without the winner of the Civil War being strong how could the rest of the