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Accurate.

“he believed the election was stolen and that he meant it when he told the crowd that day to march from the White House to Capitol Hill “peacefully and patriotically”. Accept that he believed none of his supporters was carrying weapons or intended violence of any sort. Accept that he has since come to conclude, as he has claimed, that Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the House, somehow “caused” the violence.” because she did not like the “Optics” of having 6 foot fences and guards at the capitol. 

[From the ashes of civil war, a new nation faced fresh possibilities while enduring old problems.]

[most of the promises of Reconstruction were unmet.  ]

[The compromise allowed southern Democrats, no longer fearing reprisal from federal troops or northern politicians for their flagrant violence and intimidation of black voters, to return to power]

Once the Depression happened, alcohol abuse was brought into the picture. A Republican governor Rutherford B won the election without mentioning reconstruction and picked to focus on fighting corruption and alcohol abuse.

[In September 1873, Jay Cooke and Company declared bankruptcy, ] which lead to 6 years of depression 

Workers protested

Reconstruction ended in Tennessee Virginia and Gerogia

[Republicans and Democrats responded to economic uncertainty by retreating from Reconstruction.]

[United States never committed the personnel required to restore order and guarantee black southerners the rights promised by the Fourteenth Amendment]