Sustaining+Americans+support+for+the+occupation+effort

Type in the content of your new page here.  -    Northerners had a fierce need and desire to preserve what they had suffered and died for.  -    The radical Republican vision of Reconstruction did manage enough support to sustain it, at least through the restoration of the Southern states between 1868 and 1870.  -    The Civil Rights Law of 1875, which attempted to legislate a state of social equality, produced tremendous reaction and tremendous opposition in the South.  -    White Northerners wanted slavery ended because they had lived through an entire generation of political turmoil caused by slavery. Southerners saw northerners as opportunists and exploiters who were grabbing at economic and political opportunities offered by the condition of the South. Although this pertains to maintaining order it also deals with support of Americans, many organizations in the south were formed to bring white supremacy back into order. By using violent tactics these organizations created fear which subdued the American people in supporting postwar tasks. Support for the war in Iraq in the United States is generally quite poor.