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The main goal of the South during the reconstruction period was to impede the Northern progress and ultimately keep everything the way things were before the war. At first, it seemed the North was accomplishing many of their goals, passing laws, abolishing slavery, and allowing suffrage for the freed blacks. With complete control of congress it seemed that the North was on the path to national domination. However once the North got tired and pulled out of reconstruction, the South began to rise again. Economically their agrarian system of plantation recovered with blacks still as the main work force. Socially, classes stayed the same with whites still on top of the social caste system. Politically, all southern governments returned back to democratic government by the end of the reconstruction. The southern goals of reconstruction were to have everything stay the same, and accomplished these goals through the fact that the economy came back to its original form of a one crop system, which prevented any lasting social and political revolution, which ultimately gave white southerners what they wanted: a breakdown of the reconstruction movement.