Because the citizens depended on the patricians because of their power and influence.
Answer:
B. The effects of the plague stopped all advancements in science and medicine for the next two centuries.
I hope this is right I'm not sure. :(
Well, there's no cartoon or letter, but many Northerners lost interest in reconstruction because their attempts to protect former slaves failed, and a lot of slaves ended up as sharecroppers, which wasn't really any different to slavery. Basically, the slaves were still uneducated, poor, in the South, and didn't have any more rights than before reconstruction because of black codes (Jim Crow laws) and sharecropping.
