RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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reforming the election process in the South.
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regaining power in Congress for the South
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battling widespread political corruption in the North
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undoing civil rights legislation passed by congressmen from the North.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Redeemers were a political group established in the American South in the 1870s. Their goal was to “redeem” the South by removing Republicans from power and restoring white supremacy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its main focus was on bringing the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Redeemers By the 1880s, a Democratic majority reigned in every southern state, and southerners called it Redemption. The new Democratic office holders were known as Redeemers because they redeemed the South from federal intervention. For the most part, these New South leaders came from the middle classes.
Detailed explanation-5: -What strategy did the politicians known as Redeemers have to gain political power? What was the outcome? The Redeemers were people who aimed to repair the south in congress’s eyes. Their strategy was to redeem/ reclaim the south from northern domination, they had some success.