At the end of the Civil War, the infrastructure of the South had been destroyed.
The newly enfranchised former slaves did not understand the political structure.
The former Confederate Solders were disenfranchised but were well trained in the techniques of war. They were willing to use military techniques against their former slaves.
Northern Solders were housed in southern homes. These solders were from the dregs of society. When they left the houses, they abandoned the children they had fathered. That caused hard feelings.
The desire of congress to punish confederate solders caused chaos in the South.
Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.
Apparently the south lost the civil war which in turn means the north controlled the south.
VIRGINIA!
Vast stretches of the south lay in ruins
Civil service reform
Because the south gave up.
Sharecropping
hahahhaha we won
in Richmond Virginia. the confederates capital.
tenant farming
Virgina, 1865
Martin Luteren King