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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southern Democrats
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Radical Republicans
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moderate Republicans
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recently freed slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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. Most Redeemers were white landowning farmers who benefited from the old social order in the South.