Why Is The South Responsible For The End Of Reconstruction

Souths is Blinded by Hate

After the civil war there was a constant dispute between the north and the south. The north believed that since the south joined the union they should help them reconstruct. Notherners no only wanted to help them reconstruct but also help the slaves to be free. That’s how the Reconstruction began. During Reconstruction the south was very displeased that the norther people were coming in to their terrirtory to help the blacks. Sotherners believed that the blacks did not deserve to be free, so they ended the Reconstruction with violence. The south was responsible for the end of Reconstruction due to the creation of the KKK, the hate towards blacks, and giving blacks limited rights. The creation of the KKK was one of
the reasons why the Reconstruction ended.The KKK was a group of southerners that hated blacks, that would cover their faces with a sheet or a blanket and go out terriozing everyone who wanted blacks to be free. KKK would often kill or harm anyone that go on there way. The passage from (testimony to a joint House and Senate Committiee in 1872) explains that there was a black free slaved that was harmed and nearly killed by the KKK, because he was voting for the Radicals meaning people who wanted to give blacks more rights. As stated in this qoute “On the 29th of October 1869,[the Klansmen] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left them for dead. They said to me, “Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?”” The black slave could not call the authorities from the south, because some authorities were in the KKK so that would mean he would just anger the KKK members. Every black freed slave was not safe, they had to sleep in terror from the KKK. This is one of the main reasons why the south ended Reconstruction, because they created a group know as the KKK that put an end to the Reconstruction.

The hated toward the blacks was the main reason the south ended Reconstruction.
For many years the south used blacks as there slaves. Once the blacks started to get more right the south was fillied with angry. This is why why the south created the KKK. The blacks had just gotten there freedom and they were not going let any sotherners take it away from them. This caused the south to hate the blakcs even more. With all the new laws that came about blacks were now allowed to take any high postion jobs. The passage from( The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Cibil War Noth, 1865-1901.) reinforces that blacks now have power to choose any job they wanted, thus angerying the south even more. A qoute that demostrates this is “The rising generation of … blacks nedded a period of probation and instruction; a period … long enough for thee black have forgotten something of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable subsistence and of preforming the duties of any postions to which he might aspire.”Southerners started to hate blacks more because they did not want them to get more rights and powers, they wanted them to be a powerless slave that works for
them.

The southerners giving blacks limited rights was the last reason why the south ended the Reconstruction. Northerns after wining the war put laws in effect. These laws gave the blacks more rights. Every southerner was angered by this, so what they did was they tryied to limite the blacks rights. Every republicans citizen that was giving blacks more freedom and power were killed. (Albion Tourgee) states in (Letter on Ku Klux Klan) “Its is my mournful duty to inform you that our friend John W. Stephens, State Senator from Caswell, is dead. He was a foully murdered by the Ku-Klux in the Grand Jury room of the Court House on Saturday…. He was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room…. Another brave, honest Republican Citizen has met his fate at the hands of these friends….” This qoute states that the south will stop at nothing to limite slaves rights. This is why the south ended Reconstruction because they tryed to limite blacks rights.
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