The failure of reconstruction is universally agreed on, but the exact reason is a source of debate. The slaves were freed, but racism and hatred continued. The government did not give the slaves the tools to become successful.
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The South reverted to its racist ways following Reconstruction.
Its failure to provide blacks with farm property of their own
reconstruction failed because of the south's indifference to, laws and equality. However, the south was not completely to blame for the failure of reconstruction the government for example removed all federal troops from former confederate states leaving the south to establish all white governments.
Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877, it was a failure for the most part.
It failed to end the bitterness between the North and the South