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Why have some historians argued that reconstruction was a failure?

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Because there were bad consequences

FAILURE.

-The collapse of the Radical Republican Party

-The lack of acceptance of former slaves by whites and their unwillingness to give African Americans the rights they deserved

-"national disgrace"

-Radical republicans having selfish intentions. Republican's wanted to exploit Southern labor by using blacks as a way to get more Republican votes from the South

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