Why Did The Reconstruction Fail

The reconstruction was a success in an outline as it restored the north and south states as a unified nation. However, the reconstruction plan did not go far and deep enough to address the political, economic, and social problems. Reconstruction failed to emerge the southern states into one central government. The radical republicans blamed believed that the confederate leaders should be punished for it. The north and south were hardly on talking relationships. The reconstruction failed to reform the economic side. For the plantation owners in the south, not having slaves were a loss to their business as they were not able to keep up the cultivation without slaves. It also failed to elevate economic equalities for freed slaves. As for the social
problems, the reconstruction documented the thirteenth, fourteenth, and the fifteenth Amendments but these were not fully acknowledged. Slaves were freed but they were not completely accepted into society. The reconstruction failed to reform the social problems and the congress lost interests to the south after the reconstruction act. The segregation laws were implemented in most of southern states and it could not prevent the violence against African Americans. In paper, it seems like the reconstruction was a successful but it failed to enforce policies for political, economic, and social problems. The congress has failed to accomplish the reconstruction in a way that Abraham Lincoln may have intent to do. The overall reconstruction only further separated the racial groups, political parties, and the racism remained unresolved question throughout the modern society.
Reference
Henretta, James A., Rebecca Edwards, and Robert O. Self. America: A Concise History, Vol. 1: to 1877. 5th ed., Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012.