festy1986
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Reconstruction actually worked really well under Grant, but elections in the south where literal violent insurgencies determined the outcome of local elections and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes through a backroom deal sealed its fate. Eric Foner's book Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution is a masterwork on the era, strongly recommend it.
I just think had the union "occupied" the south the way we as a country have with japan, South Korea and germany in the passed then perhaps alot of our history would be differnt for the better
After all it was the confederates who decided to succeed and fight a war to win that right and in losing had no right to any such demands.
I dont believe we all should be on the same side but when you believe your side is so in the right that youd literally kill in the name of those beliefs you've lost your damn mind