The North was not the leading reason Reconstruction ended, but the racist and the neglect attitude of Northerners contributed to it. The Harper’s Weekly cartoon in 1876 shows Ulysses …show more content…
The Independent Monitor cartoon shows two white men being hanged. One with a carpet that says Ohio, which can represent a carpetbagger and a donkey with KKK on it which can represent a democratic (Document A). This cartoon is used to spark panic. Including people who moved from the North to South known as carpetbaggers to support freedmen and Reconstruction. Furthermore, the Harper Weekley’s caption in 1876, says “of course he wants to vote the Democratic ticket (Document B). This cartoon is trying to show whites trying to force the end of assitance to Radical Republicians by forcing black to vote for whites. Through southern resistance they had enough power to eventually kill Reconstruction.
The South was the main force behind the end of Reconstruction because they had southern resistant, but the North did have some affect through northern neglect. The Ku Klux Klan used violence, intimidation, and fraud to spark panic into the freedmen, Radical Republicians, and other supporters. In addition, the South messed with voting rights and increased violence towards suppporters of Reconstruction. Even if the North had not neglected people in the South, it would of take a lot of effort to end the violence and