Reconstruction Era: Southern Resistance and Racial Tensions

World War II was only a proportion of what the United States was about to encounter. The South had suffered from the tramatic disaster of the war, and was in desperate need of reconstruction. Northern government officials were now suffocating in the difficult tasks they would have to perform to achieve their goal. As the African Americans were finally gaining freedom as well as other laws, the South and the North remained racist, whereas only the South acted upon their feelings with violence. Reconstruction was important because it was going to help the South get back on their feet. The South is the main reason for the end of reconstruction because of their white supremacist group, violent racism, and inability to follow government laws. The South was blind to the importance of reconstruction, and most of the Southerners were focused mainly on the African Americans and what the government was allowing them to achieve. One specific racist group that was agitated because of African American rights was the

"In the 1870's, Northern voters grew indifferent to events in the South. Weary of the 'Negro Question' and 'sick of carpet-bag' government, many Northern voters shifted their attention to such national concerns as the Panic of 1873 and corruption in" President "Grant's administration"(Doc C). If President Hayes would not have signed on an agreement that assured that the last Federal soldiers from the South would be removed in return for his presidency, then the South woud have had better protection form violence and conlfict(B.G. Essay). "In the fall of 1873," the Northerners arguide that "the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the proper excerise of political duties". Therefor stating that they thought that African Americans were not trained to govern the United Sates, and needed proper trianing before any further steps were taken(Doc