Northern support for reconstruction failed due to a variety of factors. Chief among them was the high cost of maintaining the reconstruction effort in the south. Due to the hostility of the southerners, an in place military occupation was mandatory. In addition, programs and other adjustments were equally costly. To add fuel to the fire, many northerners soured on the fact after newly freed blacks began to compete with them for unskilled labor jobs.
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His Army was tired of the Runaway Scrape. Santa Anna's Army was tired. The bridges had been burned and the time was right.
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"They were as tired and depressed as a defeated army."
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