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After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, a man with loyalty to the south and no sympathy toward the former slaves, assumed the highest office of the land. He proceeded to remove federal soldiers who were in place to protect former slaves. He allowed the south to both drag their feet in ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment as well as to elect governments, stacked with former confederates. A high number of pardons were given to people who had risen in violent revolt against the country. Once he had done all these as well as gut The Freedman's Bureau, he then abruptly said reconstruction was over.
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Why was the Reconstruction in the South abandoned?
Not as much abandonded as it was forced over by democrat racist's who came into power afterwards and abandonded the reconstruction because they saw black people as second class citizens.
Was reconstruction success or fail?
Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877, it was a failure for the most part.
What was the bourbon reconstruction?
Less severe type of reconstruction than radical reconstruction.
Who did the reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln did the reconstruction
How did white people in the South view reconstruction?
not so strict, like they just wanted to get it over with and the the blacks had no rights
