Both.
The South resisted reconstruction by passing special laws, like the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws, in order to keep blacks down in a status practically the same as slavery.
Exodusters
Which former Confederate state had the most blacks holding office during Reconstruction
blacks and whites who supported blacks (mainly)
When federal troops left in 1877
When federal troops left in 1877
they portrayed the south
Reconstruction is how the North punished the South for starting the Civil War (or War Between the States.) The army was stationed in the South until 1877. Blacks were freed, but some had an even worse time as tenant farmers than as slaves. Some white Southerners joined the Ku Klux Klan to harrass blacks and other groups they did not like.
the main idea of reconstruction is to rejoin the south and the north.
the main idea of reconstruction is to rejoin the south and the north.
No blacks went north to escape the slavery of the southern plantation owners in the south.
Most African-Americans in the South made their living as sharecroppers and were poor. Reconstruction protected their right to vote and to seek public office.