What difficulties did the United States face at the end of the civil war?

Explanation:

Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at

“In every country it always is and must be in the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest.