Question

Which was NOT a reason the North began to lose interest in the Southern Reconstruction by the early 1870s?

Answer 1

A Southern intransigence was increasingly frustrating to the North, whose soldiers had fought for blacks' freedom.
B The violence in the South was increasingly disturbing and seemed to indicate that blacks would never really be free.
C Other issues, such as Indian Wars, western expansion, and others started to overtake Northerners' attention.
D Real and propagandized evidence of corruption in the reconstructed Southern governments discouraged the North.
E Northerners were growing increasingly hostile to President Johnson, and no longer wanted to support his agenda.

Answer 2

B The violence in the South was increasingly disturbing and seemed to indicate that blacks would never really be free.