, what were three major problems facing the Union after the Civil War? Select one of the problems you listed and explain why it could be the most difficult one to solve.

Carpetbaggers, opportunists from the north, and scalawags swindled people out of their property, exploited the poor, illiterate, and naive former slaves, giving them false promises of "forty acres and a mule" and manipulating them for their own political purposes.

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