Middle ages in the European context is the age of feudalism which started with the fall of the Roman Empire and lasted up-to-the renaissance period. During the Roman period, subjects feel safe under the protection of King but the situation changed in 476 A.D with the fall of the Roman Empire. Raids from the Vikings, Magyar and Mongols, and other invaders made people to seek protection under the local lords and here began the system of feudalism in Europe.
One reason that northerners lost interest in Reconstruction was because "B. Northerners were focused <span>on the political corruption plaguing the nation," since this was during the Progressive Movement. </span>
