1. Reconstruction
... to former Confederates, and the North's gradual loss of interest in Southern matters contributed to a flawed era. Many politicians were reluctant to continue sectional bickering for in the words of Samuel J. Tilden, "We have just emerged from one civil war, and it will not do to engage in another civil war it would end in the destruction of free government." White ... ...
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