In 1865 the beginning of the end of the Civil War was actually called “Reconstruction”. The purpose of Reconstruction was to make the United States a unified nation again. Reconstruction was a success in the sense that the Southern states ratified the Constitution and chose not to secede. Southern states also agreed to pledge allegiance to the union and ratify the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. On the other hand, with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, withdrawing troops from the South, white slave owners regained power and the South slowly returned to the ways of the “old South”. The end of Reconstruction was influenced by specific causes such as: the exhaustion of Northerners in fighting the South and trying to punish the Klu Klux Klan, the radical Republicans struck down by the Supreme Court and the white unionists, the carpetbaggers and the scoundrels driven out from the market. the South by the Klu Klux Klan (Reconstruction (1865-1877)). During the Depression of 1873, Northern interest in the issue of slavery in the South slowly waned. The northerners were m...