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The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.
The use of force or coercion to prevent citizens from voting(:
they brought republican ideas to southern politics
a loyalty oath
The Republicans gained the presidency from the Compromise of 1877. The Democrats agreed to accept the Republican presidential elector, Rutherford B. Hayes.
Horace Greeley
Slaves and farmers who asked landowners for land to work would be the least benefit since they would get, usually, indebted to that person.
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 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
Ku Klux Klan
The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of prewar southern voters swear loyalty to the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation. This allowed both white and black slaves to become free in the south, although it was not the most popular law in that area.
Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant died on 1885-07-23.
sharecropping
It gave African American men the right to vote, but ignored the rights of women.
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