Reasons For Failure Of Reconstruction

After the Civil War, America’s very foundation converged on itself which called for the total reconstruction of the South. The main focus of Reconstruction was to transform the Southern states and their society into a morally correct one. At the time of Reconstruction, it was also the 100th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence which was a sense of accomplishment to all Americans. By this time, it seemed as if America was on a rise due to the growth of jobs and life opportunities. Yet, when the Election of 1876 came around it caused a divide between freedmen supporters and traditional southerners. The election resulted in the Compromise of 1877 in an effort to to avoid a new civil war from outbreaking. The compromise gave the presidency to Hayes, in return Hayes removed all Federal soldiers from the South. This move allowed the South to return to old ways which began with the discriminatory re-electing of whites back into the state and federal government. Both regions had ideas about how to reform the South,
Nevertheless, the South wanted to revert to their traditional ways pre-civil war, and was a massive component in the failing of Reconstruction, however Northern disconcern is also at fault for the ruins of reconstruction.
The South was a significant reason for the downfall of the reconstruction mostly due to the horrors inflicted by the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK generated havoc in the South in a variety of ways one which was by targeting black officials, and by also attacking people of power in Southern communities. Albion Tourgee described a horrific scene that unfolded on a well known congressmen in broad daylight,“It is my mournful duty to inform you that our friend John W. Stephens, States Senator from Caswell,