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Explain ONE failure of Reconstruction. Consider political, economic and social factors.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Economic Factors

without the workspace provided by enslaved people, the plantation system fell apart and the economy of the south changed forever.

The failure to give freedmen their own plot of land after the civil war meant that most African American remained dependent on their former masters.

Social Factors

the social system that developed after the period of reconstruction was that of racial segregation and white supremacy. Most freemen were uneducated and this weakened their ability to compete with the whites. Ku Klux klan threatened southern blacks with act of violence against those who attempted to ascertain their rights

Political Factors

the southern star government systematically stripped African-American of their basic political and civil rights

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