In 1865, the beginning of the end of the Civil War was indeed called "Reconstruction". The goal of Reconstruction was to make the United States a unified nation again. Reconstruction was successful in the sense that the Southern states ratified the constitution and chose not to secede. The southern states also agreed to pledge allegiance to the union and ratify the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. On the other hand, with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, by withdrawing troops from the South, white slave owners regained power and the South slowly returned to the ways of the "old South." The end of Reconstruction was influenced by specific causes such as: the exhaustion of Northerners fighting the South and trying to punish the Klu Klux Klan, radical Republicans struck down by the Supreme Court and white unionists, mockers and scalawags expelled from the country. the South by the Klu Klux Klan (Reconstruction (1865-1877)). During the Depression of 1873, Northern interest in the issue of slavery in the South slowly waned. The northerners were m...