Explain the experience of African-Americans in the South over the course of the half-century following the Civil War. How did an interracial democracy in the South come to be a plausible goal for a time? Why was this goal not realized? Why did sharecropping become the dominant form of black labor by the end of Reconstruction and why was the white South able to impose a “Jim Crow” style of segregation, even as it was disfranchising the overwhelming majority of black men? Solution 1. Post civil war the African Americans faced a lot of troubles like : Destruction, hunger, lawlessness and violence amongst others. after the civil war many of the african americans came out out slavery and were refugees and they did not kenw what to do next.But when they arrived home, they found a strange new world waiting for them..