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open-ended question
what did most politicians and
americans focus on following
reconstruction?
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Explanation:

After the Reconstruction era (1865-1877), most politicians and Americans shifted their focus away from the civil rights and rebuilding of the South. Instead, they prioritized economic growth, industrialization, westward expansion, and the material prosperity of the nation, a period that would become known as the Gilded Age. There was also a widespread retreat from enforcing the civil rights gains of Black Americans, allowing for the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South.

Answer:

Following Reconstruction, most politicians and Americans focused on national economic growth, industrialization, westward expansion, and material prosperity (the priorities of the emerging Gilded Age), while abandoning efforts to uphold the civil rights of Black Americans, enabling the rise of discriminatory systems like Jim Crow in the South.