ANSWER AS FAST AS POSSIBLE AND YOU WILL BE MARKED BRAINLIEST AND YOU WILL EARN 30 POINTS In many ways, Reconstruction was a failure. By 1877,
southern states were once again controlled mainly by
elite whites. The gains that African Americans had briefly
made in voting and holding elected office were
undermined, often by the violence of groups such as the
KKK. Poor whites and blacks alike suffered under tenant
farming and sharecropping. Any hope for equality
disappeared as efforts to create separate spaces for the
races began to emerge. In Georgia, cotton remained the
most important crop even though it was hard for a
middle-class farmer, much less a sharecropper, to make a
decent living
Which evidence does the writer include to support the
idea that Reconstruction was a failure? Check all that
apply.
the rise of segregation
the problems of sharecropping
the loss of elite white leadership
the creation of the Ku Klux Klan
the undermining of African Americans' suffrage
the failure of cotton as a major crop