1. Race and Radical Reconstruction
Most white southerners claimed that the blacks that won office during Reconstruction were incapable of running the government. ... Southerners simply were unwilling to accept any form of government in which blacks and northerners played a significant role. ... All this proves that the federal government had no idea what they were getting into in terms of the elongated governmental supervision of America. ... The federal government was simply unprepared to take on the massive commitment of long-term supervision. ... Supposedly, North and South reached a compromise: black civil liberties and r...
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