The violence, intimidation, and fraud perpetrated by Redeemers does not fully explain the unraveling of Reconstruction. By the early 1870s most white Northerners had come to believe that they had done more than enough for black Southerners, and it was time to focus on other issues. Growing economic problems intensified this feeling. Many northern whites came to believe that any debt owed to black people for northern complicity in the sin of slavery had been wiped out by the blood shed during the Civil War. Burying and memorializing the Civil War dead emerged as a common concern among white Americans, north and south. White America was once again united, if only in the shared belief that it was time to move on, consigning the issues of slavery and civil rights to history.