Question

What are the three main reasons why reconstruction failed?

Answer 1

Because the North stopped helping. Government gave up. Black people couldn't buy land so the did sharecropping instead.

Answer 2

Also, another cause of the lack of political focus during Reconstruction was the great economic prosperity in the North following the Civil War. ... The failure of the North to effectively rebuild the South and bring it back into the Union during Reconstruction is evident after the time period.