Higher taxes and violence against black politicians post-Civil War
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Much of the American South lay razed after the Confederacy surrendered its forces to the Union in 1865 to end the Civil War. Public financing was needed to rebuild cities and infrastructure, but the South did not have a strong history of providing public goods through taxation.