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Corruption; as people governing were benefiting but not giving people the protection, public services and justice in return.
loss of trust to State authority, is the main reason.
The others are military and politic struggles. Inside the Empire and outside. People were trying to gain power, and following personal interests and this caused in long term disconnections between the top it self and towards the population.
At the end only value that kept them together was religion, and even that was shredded into pieces. Catholics, orthodox and Protestants were not getting on well.
That depends which "Protestant ministers" you would have in mind. Protestantism has wide disparities within its ranks, and not all were on the same page. In the 19th century, most churches still stood against women's equality. But movements toward women's suffrage included many Protestant women, and beginning in the late 19th century liberal Protestantism was more likely to be in support of such movements. However, there remained (and still remain) many very conservative and traditional Protestant churches that are averse to giving women an equal role with men, basing their views on interpretations of Bible verses about men and women. They've tended to acknowledge women voting in political society as a reality, but keep women in a secondary place within the church's organization.
Catholic leaders in the 19th century maintained that women's suffrage was "an affront to divine law and the natural order and a threat to family and society," according to Susan Hill Lindley in the book, <em>You Have Stepped Out of Your Place: A History of Women and Religion in America </em>(1996).
Before being allowed to re-join the Union, Confederate states where required to ratify the 14th Amendment. This Amendment protected citizens from racist laws.
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