Historical-HJ

The way that the Reconstruction which lasted between 1865 to 1887 is a good fit for this topic is because of what happened to the South after they were defeated in the war. After the war was over the South was in shambles and ruins since the majority of the fighting had happened in the south. When the President ordered the Reconstruction of the south the southerners had mixed emotions that would start going sour but not enough to start another war. They were broken and upset at the fact that they had lost the war and in turn lost their main source of profit, slavery. They were excited for a while though because they thought that they would be able to put back up their old shops and go back to the rural life that they loved to live. What they did not expect though was that the land that they had was a huge target for businnesses and new business ventures from northern industrialists who quickly took over land in the south and industrialized it to make a quick buck off the land. This did not sit well with the South because they felt that they were supposed to own and designate what that land was supposed to be. They were upset that the government would not protect them as they were promised by the President himself. This brought a lot of tension and hate toward any northerner who remotely entered the south. This led to the northerners names changed from Yanks to Carpetbaggers in the south. This shows the same thing happening to the south as it did for Huck. In the time of the Little guy's need, the government makes the wrong decision by allowing northerners into the south. The government thought that letting northern industrialists into the south would help in the speed of the industrialization of the South. Really it just made the southereners less willing and less wanting to industrialize

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