The Civil War was a long bloody battle that tore our Union apart. After General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, in 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse. We had to put the United States back together in some way, and that way was Reconstruction. In Reconstruction, the Union had to bring the Confederacy back into the Union and to abolish slavery. Reconstruction lead to mass chaos in the United States and unfortunately failed. Today no one knows who’s fault it was that reconstruction failed. In my opinion, reconstruction failed because the North’s lack of control toward the South, Andrew Johnson, and the government.
The first way the North let reconstruction fail was the lack of control the government had toward the South’s actions toward African-Americans.
The first way the North let reconstruction fail was the lack of control the government had toward the South’s actions toward African-Americans.