USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is an example of “redemption” as it was defined near the end of Reconstruction? A president’s administration was plagued with scandal, but the president “redeemed” himself by firing many corrupt officials.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1870s, Democrats began to muster more political power, as former Confederate Whites began to vote again. It was a movement that gathered energy up until the Compromise of 1877, in the process known as the Redemption.

Detailed explanation-3: -The northern Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction looked to overturn Southern society and specifically aimed at ending the plantation system. President Johnson quickly disappointed Radical Republicans when he rejected their idea that the federal government could provide voting rights for freed slaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman believed that it was necessary to break the South’s will to fight. Sherman summed up the idea of total war in blunt terms: “We are not only fighting hostile armies, ” he declared in 1864, “but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."