reconstruction failed because of the south's indifference to, laws and equality. However, the south was not completely to blame for the failure of reconstruction the government for example removed all federal troops from former confederate states leaving the south to establish all white governments.
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Reconstruction was a time when the government thought that all people needed human rights even African Americans. Until this point African Americans had no rights. Some say it failed because blacks were not equal to whites after reconstruction.at the end of the period,blacks were still much poorer than whites and they were not able to vote and were subject to segregation.
failure becuase it basically crippled the south, helped out the north a bit though.
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According to the article about Reconstruction in Wikipedia, nearly all historians consider reconstruction to be a failure. There is a link to the part of the article where this is said below.
Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877, it was a failure for the most part.
The South reverted to its racist ways following Reconstruction.
it reunited the nation
The failure of reconstruction is universally agreed on, but the exact reason is a source of debate. The slaves were freed, but racism and hatred continued. The government did not give the slaves the tools to become successful.
The main goal for the reconstruction in the Civil War was to rebuild and accept the South in the US again, but radical republican reconstruction wanted to make the South pay for what they had done. The radical republican reconstruction was somewhat of a success in that they had several bills passed in Congress against the South.