Kowani wrote:Luminesa wrote:Reconstruction was of course also a difficult time for African-Americans, who struggled to get voting rights and decent jobs. Sure, much of the problem came from the Confederate South, but the North after the Civil War only cared so far as they tried to pull States back into the Union. Once that was done, they mostly forgot about the African-Americans. It was a mess on a national scale that saw malice against African-Americans from both sides, both enabled or otherwise.
Andrew Johnson and Hayes killed Reconstruction, sadly.
Pretty much, and made it a lot worse and a lot more complicated than it should have been for basically everyone involved.