The end of the US's Reconstruction Era saw the Federal government retreat from taking an interest in Southern affairs. This resulted in the white Southern leaders reestablishing the white political power structure.
Mississippi and South Carolina
As members of southern state legislatures
Mississippi and South Carolina
Some of the immediate effects of American reconstruction were the end of slavery, a change of government in the South to disallow Confederate politicians, and the drop of the southern economy because of the lack of slave labor. Longer-term effects included African-Americans gaining the right to vote, long-lasting racial tensions, and the growth of communities that had mostly or all African-Americans.
Southern white Republicans 'scalawags'
Redeemers
Michael Perman has written: 'Pursuit of unity' 'The road to redemption' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 'Perspective on the American Past' 'Southern politics and American reunion, 1865-1868'
President Andrew Jackson restricted African American rights during reconstruction. Blacks were excluded from southern politics. Radical Reconstruction occurred from 1867 to 1877
The end of the US's Reconstruction Era saw the Federal government retreat from taking an interest in Southern affairs. This resulted in the white Southern leaders reestablishing the white political power structure.
Numan V. Bartley has written: 'Jimmy Carter and the politics of the new South' -- subject(s): Addresses, essays, lectures, Politics and government 'New South, 1945-80' 'Southern politics and the second reconstruction' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Political parties, Elections 'The rise of mass resistance' 'The creation of modern Georgia' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Social conditions, Georgia
The southern economy was completely restored.
Mississippi and South Carolina
As members of southern state legislatures
In 1870 they made a deal with Hays to stop reconstruction if they made him president. They made him president and he did end reconstruction. This allowed Jim Crow laws to be enforced and it will take another 100 years before African Americans will gain civil rights.
Scalawag
African Americans remained disenfranchised