Who won the Civil War? Consider the years from 1865 to 1900. If the Civil War was intended to resolve issues connected to the emancipation and the preeminence of the federal government, to what extent was it successful? Look at the Compromise of 1877, sharecropping, racial segregation, African American disfranchisement, and the lack of northern resistance to these trends. What did these trends in the South say about the supposed victory over slavery and states' rights?