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Which political bodies withdrew their reenforcements from southern states, ending the progress of reconstruction?

The President, Congress, and the Supreme Court

Who is George H White and when is the last year that he served in Congress and why is that important?

He is a North Carolina and congressmen who finished his 10 year in 1901 as the last African-American politician left in any major politics. He will be the last politician until 1928

Redeemers

Southerners that wanted to reclaim domination of the south that they had lost during the Civil War and Reconstruction era

What are some of the tactics that the redeemers used to eliminate African-American political power?

Violence intimidation and some newly constructed legal means

Poll tax

A Mississippi voting stipulation passed in 1898 In order to vote the voter must have proof of residency and payment of all taxes and also pay a two dollar pull tax when they go to vote. Also having a criminal record would exclude the voter in the criminal record offenses were related to the crimes that African-American voters have been charge with

Eight box Law

South Carolina's attempt at disenfranchisement they made a primitive literary test that required the voters to deposit their ballots in one of eight separate boxes and each separate box was for a different election race

The grandfather clause

A Louisiana disenfranchisement law that stipulated that unless the voter had been eligible to vote before the year 1867 or their father or grandfather had been eligible to vote before the year 1867 they would not be qualified about it was passed in 1898

Social Darwinism

Charles Derwin's theory of evolution used as basis; Herbert Spencer and William Grahm Sumner asserted that life in modern society was competitive and only those ppl who were mentally emotionally and physically strong would survive

1899 ******* v. Richmond Board of Education Supreme Court ruling

Unanimously refused to accept black parents contention that the separate but equal doctrine was violated