In many ways, Reconstruction was a failure. By southern states were once again controlled mainly by elite whitesThe gains that African Americans had briefly made in voting and holding elected office were undermined, often by the violence of groups such as the Poor whites and blacks alike suffered under tenant farming and sharecropping. Any hope for equality disappeared as efforts to create separate spaces for the races began to emerye. In Georgia, cotton remained the most important crop even though it was hard for a middle class farmer, much less a sharecropper, to make a decent living What is the main point of this passager The of Reconstruction was the creation of new leadership in the South O Reconstruction failed to protect African Americans from violence and poverty Reconstruction led whites and African Americans to be treated equally, but was otherwise a failure Only tenant farmers made important gains during the Reconstruction era