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Why would a white southerners be more likely to vote for Democrats after the civil war?
The South blamed the Republican party and the US President, Lincoln a Republican for its defeat in the Civil War.
For decades, the South turned to the Democrat party when voting as they blamed the Republican party for its defeat in the US Civil War. The term " solid South" meant that Democrats could always count on Southern States for their support in elections.
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How did pro-Union Southerners white and black help ensure the Union victory in the American Civil War?
Many pro-Union Southerners kept the North informed of supply caches to provide targets for the Northern army. In addition, these Southerners withheld financial support to the South.
Why did many white southerners fear free African Americans?
The vast majority of white Southerners could not afford slaves and struggled for basic self-sufficiency.
How did white southerners react to the freedman's bureau?
They were mad about it.
What are white southerners in the Republican Party called?
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - WASPS
Who are scalawags?
A "scalawag" is an American spelling of scallywag. It usually is used to define a mischievous child who although he is "bad" is not "evil". In America the term was applied to Southerners who worked with Northern Republicans during the reconstruction following the American Civil War.
What did southerners who were for redemption want?
Southerners who were for redemption wanted to return power to the white Democrats
What did southerners who wanted redemption want?
Southerners who were for redemption wanted to return power to the white Democrats
What wanted Southerners who were for the redemption?
To return power to the white democrats.
What groups of white southerners neither wanted slaves or to have them in their area?
to return power to the white democrats
Democrats called those white southerners who joined the Republican party Scalawags?
Yes. Scalawag was the name used by Southern Democrats for white Southern Republicans who worked in Reconstruction governments.
What was the term used by southerners for a return to Democraticwhite rules?
The term used by southerners for a return to Democratic white rule after the Civil War and Reconstruction was "Redemption." This movement aimed to restore white supremacy and undermine the political rights of African Americans. It marked a period where white Democrats sought to reclaim power and reverse the gains made by Black citizens during Reconstruction.
Redemption was the term used to describe what desire shared by many southerners?
restoring the power of the democrats and white supremacy
Why were white Southerns bitterly and violently opposed to Black and white Republicans exercising political power?
Until around the 60s, most southerners voted democrat for two reasons. 1) It was common to "vote as you shot". Many southerners voted for the democrats because the Union in the civil war had been led by the Republican Lincoln. 2) The Democrats at the time had many more conservative members from the south, mostly because of the first reason. Nowdays, the Democrats are a much more generally liberal party, but back then there was a mixture.
What 3 major groups of people faced hardships and fears in the civil war?
poor white southerners, plantation owners, and black southerners
What percent of white southerners owned slaves on the eve of the civil war in 1860?
A lot.
What governors supported segregation?
White people wanted segregation. Also the Southerners didn't want the black people to gain rights. That caused the Civil War which almost split US up.
Who would most likely be a member of Ku Klux Klan?
white Southerners
