Reconstruction was ended too early, in large part because of the Lincoln assassination, and the very questionable choice to appease the South by putting Andrew Johnson a heartbeat away from the presidency
We definitely should have been draconian in punishing the south, but our greatest mistake is civility politics. The leaders were all in the same social circles, and to this day that’s a recurring problem that plagues most democracies. They didn’t want real consequences for their buddies
So all in all, we didn’t strip enough power from the leadership and stopped punishment way earlier than even the overly light-handed plan in place
Because you people didn’t punish the South after the civil war and then let a bunch of richwhitemen run the fucking country.
Wish I could up vote your comment twice. There needs to be retribution dolled out to the South for this.
Reconstruction was ended too early, in large part because of the Lincoln assassination, and the very questionable choice to appease the South by putting Andrew Johnson a heartbeat away from the presidency
We definitely should have been draconian in punishing the south, but our greatest mistake is civility politics. The leaders were all in the same social circles, and to this day that’s a recurring problem that plagues most democracies. They didn’t want real consequences for their buddies
So all in all, we didn’t strip enough power from the leadership and stopped punishment way earlier than even the overly light-handed plan in place