The North played a really big part in the reconstruction and its downfall. The North became less involved with the South and started focusing on their own political affairs. Document C In the Americans written by Gerald Danzer, he states of the Northern disconnected with the South. He writes, “In the 1870’s northern voters grew indifferent to events in the South. Weary of the ‘Negro question’ and ‘sick of’ carpet bag government, Northern voters shifted their attention to such national concerns as the Panic of 1873 and corruption in Grant’s administration.” They had enough with the violence that the South promoted by the Ku Klux Klan and Opted out of aiding the Reconstruction period. The North became invested in affairs other than reconstruction
