USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The White League, also known as the White Man’s League, was a white paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Redeemers sought to restore the pre-Civil War social order in the South. This included limited rights for African Americans, white supremacy, and rule by the Democratic Party. As Confederate veterans regained voting rights in the wake of the Civil War, the Redeemers rose in power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy. Their policy of Redemption was intended to oust the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, “carpetbaggers", and “scalawags".

Detailed explanation-4: -“Redeemers” referred to their actions as “redemption” because they believed they were “redeeming” southern states from the “misrule and corruption” of Reconstruction and Republican political leaders.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.