After about 10 years, reconstruction collapsed after a political deal. many of the social reforms were reversed. can you think of anything that could have kept the reforms in place?

Explanation:

The Reconstruction process lasted from 1865 to 1877. One of the main reason of the Reconstruction failure is the White Supremacy. North American politics was so infected of the White thoughts, against the abolition of slavery, maintaining their power above African American, who where consider only as slaves.

The whites said that national economy depended of the slaves, their freedom could carry a huge collapse in the Nation.

a historian researching the immigration policies of the early 1900s would expect a source written today,rather than in 1910 to :

( a ) be more interested in objective data and statistics.