They wanted to create a non-racist society, modernize the South’s economy, and write new constitutions for its states. However, the South was able to prevent the North from imposing their Northern way of life on the South. Despite Northern military occupation, the South was able to bide their time until the Northern troops left, by which point they had been able to retake control of the state governments. In doing so, they could remove black politicians from office and ensure that blacks would never have political and civil rights. With the South’s efforts to get rid of blacks by campaigning terror, lynching, and mob action, the South eventually wore down the political will of the North, allowing the South to go back to their old ways of
They wanted to create a non-racist society, modernize the South’s economy, and write new constitutions for its states. However, the South was able to prevent the North from imposing their Northern way of life on the South. Despite Northern military occupation, the South was able to bide their time until the Northern troops left, by which point they had been able to retake control of the state governments. In doing so, they could remove black politicians from office and ensure that blacks would never have political and civil rights. With the South’s efforts to get rid of blacks by campaigning terror, lynching, and mob action, the South eventually wore down the political will of the North, allowing the South to go back to their old ways of