Original sentence: A good deal of ill-will among the Southern survivors resulted from the resulting shift of political power to the north, the destruction inflicted on the south by the Union armies as the end of the war approached, and the Reconstruction program instituted in the South by the Union after the war's end
Edited sentence: A good deal of ill-will among the Southern survivors resulted from the resulting shift of political power to the north, the destruction inflicted on the south by the Union armies as the end of the war approached, and the Reconstruction program forced on the former Confederacy by the Union victors