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AP US History question:
How do you account for the failure of Reconstruction to bring social and economic equality of opportunity to the former slaves?


Sagot :

Reconstruction is largely seen as a failure, and many historians believe this was primarily because the South for so long had been dependent on slaves that in one swift motion the South's entire livelihood shifted. This dramatic shift was too much for the Southerners to absorb at once, and harsh Jim Crow laws sprang up.