Was Reconstruction more 3T than 1T?

[JasonBlack]

(10-13-2022, 07:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: For the Freedmen, Reconstruction was supposed to be a 1T. Southern blacks took on Civic characteristics  in attempts to establish effective institutions. Southern whites sought to return as much as possible to the norms of the antebellum era in what looks like an effort to revive a 3T. That of course was a nasty conflict.

I get the sense that 1Ts in general have a tendency to pretend more problems have been solved than was actually the case. This makes young idealists look around like "uh...am I crazy or something? Does no one else see this?".