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The use of force or coercion to prevent citizens from voting(:
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
There were several reasons that Northern support had faded:
- The cost of military operations in the south worried many people
- The south didn't want to change and were passing laws in direct repudiation of federal mandates
- The KKK terrorists were widely accepted in some southern state governments
- Violence against blacks and dismissal of law was widespread... reconstruction didn't seem to be working
they worked to put white southerners back into power
they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming
The Redeemers
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
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.
Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant died on 1885-07-23.
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