Retreat from Reconstruction

Horace Porter

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To what do you attribute the outcome of Reconstruction?

(You may wish to reorder these priorities as you offer your explanation)

1. Violence by southern "Redeemers" against white and black Republicans
2. Lack of will/interest in the North (you may say the Republicans were part of this, or that they made a rational calculation about voter interest)
3. Ineffective federal government (had it tried harder, things would have been different)
4. Incompetence among southern Republicans
5. Institutional limitations (still not a large federal government, conservative court decisions)
6. Economic depression following the Panic of 1873

Feel free to add other considerations.
 
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