Who Killed Reconstruction Dbq Analysis

Who done it? In the North, the people believed that slavery should end and the nation should become united while in the south, whites believed in the institution of slavery and that states should have their own rights. After the North wins the Civil War, the nation must regroup and rebuild the South. Who killed Reconstruction? I think both the North and the South contributed in the death of Reconstruction because of: Corrupted government in the North and the Rebellion of the South. In the South, the KKK murdered many contributors of the Reconstruction of the South. According to Document A, “... he was stabbed five or six times and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room…” The quote states that the state Senator Stephens from Castwell being brutally murdered by the KKK. Additionally, the author of this document was the next target for the KKK. Both these government officials had supported the Reconstruction ideas towards the South. The illustration from document B
Was the question everyone was hoping to find an answer to. The South blamed the North for its corruption and the North blamed the South for its occupants and the destruction they were causing in the end both had the same goal, blame the opposite side. As stated in document D “ the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the proper exercise of political duties”, also a picture by a Northern artist shows two black males arguing in a courtroom surrounded by a mess of papers making the blacks look disorganized and without collaboration from its own colleagues. The North and the South both carried the traits that killed Reconstruction and instead of fixing their “bad habits” they worsen things
To conclude, The question “Who killed Reconstruction the North or the South?” the answer is both. The North and the South together killed Reconstruction, they both caused chaos on their side of the line. From corruption in the North to the KKK in the South, there was no hope for rebuilding the South