Reconstruction changed life in the South in several ways, but only temporarily. First, it helped the emancipated slave populations to assume leadership roles in Southern society and otherwise break with their enslaved pasts. Second, it served as a stabilizing and development factor for industrial and agricultural rebuilding throughout the South.
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The South had developed a more balanced economy after Reconstruction
Because of the KKK and its threats made the south fear death instead of helping with reconstruction
Reconstruction is the period after the Civil War until 1877. It was a period where the South was being punished by the North for starting the Civil War.
lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
because the south had to give up there slaves and the north didnt own any slaves to give up. and thats why life in the south had to change more dramatically the the life in the north.