Many white Southerners opposed the new Reconstruction governments because they enforced the newly-bestowed rights of blacks. Many Southerners also felt that the governments were hostile and gouged h hmm d g v h
White southerners who cooperated with radical recontruction were called "scalawags". I'm sorry they are not called radicals.
Yes. Scalawag was the name used by Southern Democrats for white Southern Republicans who worked in Reconstruction governments.
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Some white southerners used intimidation tactics, violence, and voter suppression methods, such as the implementation of poll taxes and literacy tests, to try to overcome Republican rule. These methods aimed to limit the political power of Black voters and maintain white supremacy in the South during the Reconstruction era.
Most white southerners held the opinion that the racial hierarchy had been just and supported continued white supremacy. They were not happy that the people they once considered chattel were now on an equal political footing with them. As a result, many white racist terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan were formed during this period as a means of maintaining racial inequality.
White southerners who cooperated with radical recontruction were called "scalawags". I'm sorry they are not called radicals.
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Yes. Scalawag was the name used by Southern Democrats for white Southern Republicans who worked in Reconstruction governments.
Radical white southerners did everything in their power to oppose rights for African Americans. Namely, the white southerners would African Americans to take tests and pay outrageous fees in order to vote.
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In United States history, scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction ... (called carpetbaggers) to take control of their state and local governments. ... In the South, Black Freedmen and White Southerners with Republican.
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they worked to put white southerners back into power
they worked to put white southerners back into power
Reconstruction was doomed from the start because southerners had to account for their terrible loss. This was in lives and their patrimony. The acceptance of any Reconstruction policy would have negated the cause for which they fought for and so many died. When Congress imposed a reconstruction policy that included even a small sense of black civil equality & black suffrage, most white southerners could & did not accept the legitimacy of governments that were elected. The white South was never more the "solid South" than in the period of Congressional Reconstruction. This was regretful, but the results speak for themselves.
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