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☆☆☆☆☆Southern democrats appealed to small farmers after the Civil War because they wanted to get the farmers to see that building roads would end in higher taxes. They also wanted to get the farmers to see that the higher taxes would happen if schools were to be built.
One way in which Southern Democrats appealed to small farmers was by arguing that the construction of new roads led to higher taxes. They made the same argument in terms of building new schools.
they worked to put white southerners back into power
The one that provided for basic needs of the war refugees.
The Redeemers
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
The carpetbaggers affected post-Civil War southern politics by insinuating themselves in the local southern economic and political structure. Proposing short-term policies that were profitable to themselves, carpetbaggers slowed the Souths post-war recovery by decades.
Churchs
The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of prewar southern voters swear loyalty to the Union.
He couldn't declare war, because that would mean recognising the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
So he called for volunteer troops - and the other side was in no doubt what they were meant for.
A. The North focused on other political and economic issues.
The states in the South had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
