DEBATE: Did Reconstruction fail as a result of racism?

This can be yes and no. Yes reconstruction failed when the Jim Crow laws were enacted after the Reconstruction ended. It could also be no because the South was also worried about state's rights. This was also a reason for the end of Reconstruction and the Civil War before it.
 
Reconstruction didn't fail. Today we are fifty states together, so it succeeded. Lots of horrible things happened DURING rec., like racism expressed in the Jim Crow laws and carpetbaggers (yankees) who came South and engaged in graft while they ruled the South.
 
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