Reconstruction
This picture, while maybe inaccurate and crude, represents almost perfectly part of the problem with the reconstruction. While the Union was trying to enforce the reconstruction, people convinced that it wouldn't work fought back against it and made it so it actually couldn't work. Had it been given a chance, then maybe it would have but...
-We are having problems with reconstruction -I gotch yer reconstruction right here!
-Let me guess, the south is resisting that too?
-We are having problems with reconstruction -I gotch yer reconstruction right here!
-Let me guess, the south is resisting that too?