What was the greatest problem in the united states after the civil war?

Reconstruction - physically, economically, spiritually, emotionally. The South was in ruins. Relations between the North and South were guarded at best. Any good history book will fill in the details.

We still think the yankees were the greatest problem.

But the war did not solve any of the problems that caused it, economic control of the tax money by the Northern states and using large percent for Western Expansion. The War basically just forced the south into submission but caused more debt, and the problem of homeless, disabled and the such any war causes.

The Padre is absolutely correct. Nothing was actually solved by the war itself... The result were decided, but the implementation was left for the future. Even slavery, the issue that we now associate as the primary issue of the war, wasn't dealt with in any real sense. It continued to exist (in practice if not in name) for half a century in many areas.

The nation was essentially left with trying to figure out how to implement what was decided by the war, deal with reconstruction and reconciliation, and to continue the policies involved in westward expansion.

The biggest problem was families were torn and friends lost almost every single american at the time was affected in some way or another by this god awful war. In my opinion the greatest problem affecting this country afte the civil war was restichting the relationship between north and south something of which we still struggle with to this day

What was the greatest problem in the united states after the civil war?
Too much government is always the problem. PS: The Civil War was not fought to free to slaves or to enslave the nation, but to preserve the Union. Was it Honest Abe that said, "Might makes Right"? "Might Makes Right": Lincoln and Churchill - The Churchill Centre (http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=603)