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How Did Reconstruction Affect The End Of Reconstruction

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After the Civil War ended in 1865, the Federal government wanted to help the now freedmen who are still living in former slave states. They decided to start the Reconstruction Era, which lasted from 1865-1877. The purpose of this Reconstruction time period was to rebuild the damage that has been left in the South from the Civil War. A group known as Radical Republicans worked to help all freedmen gain rights, but white supremacist groups interfered. Within that time period, “reactionary forces–including the Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South” (http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction). The Southerners themselves continued to perpreturate violence causing the North to back away, leaving the South to end Reconstruction. Although both the North and the South were responsible for the ending of Reconstruction, the South had a bigger influence on the ending. After the Civil War, the North wanted to “reunite” with the South and become one nation again. Throughout the years, it became clear that this is not what the South wanted; they did not want to be controlled by the Northern states. The South always seemed to be having problems, whether it was from the Carpetbaggers, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) or the local southerners causing crime and violence. The North then sent down troops to try to control the South, but they were soon stopped by the KKK. The KKK

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