The First Redemption
The First Redemption was the Southern Democrats reclamation of Southern states and some border states, marking their return to political power after the civil war. Southern Democrats hid behind economic disagreements with republicans, such as state expenditures and public schools, to disguise the policies created that directly attacked the changes wrought by Reconstruction. (Foner 182) Democrats called for a return of “intelligent policy holders” to power. (Foner 182) Democratic achieved this by implementing policies that attacked black suffrage by creating poll taxes in many states that disenfranchised blacks. In Maryland, democrats reoriented representation to former plantation counties, taking it away from Baltimore. …show more content…
The evidence, however, contradicts such an interpretation.” (186) Foner believes that the membership of the Ku Klux Klan has been disputed by historians because farmers and laborers made up most of the Klan’s membership and these types of members were much more likely to carry out the actual violence of the klan than professionals with more to lose. Hower, Foner says that these professionals picked the targets and did, while maybe not at as high as a rate, participated in the attacks. Foner quotes Abram Colby, a black legislator in Georgia, that some of the men in the Klan were “not worth the bread they eat,” yet some were “first-class men in our town.”
Foner, discussing the effects of the 1877 compromise that settled the election of 1876, writes that “James A. Garfield, who left the meeting early, believed ‘a compact of some kind was mediated’ at Wormley House, but the terms of the ‘Bargain of 1877’ remain impossible to determine with any precision” …show more content…
The Nation wrote of the Bargain that “The negro, will disappear from the field of national politics. Henceforth, the nation, as a nation, will have nothing more to do with him.” This may seem extreme, but after the bargain, Hayes, a republican, removed the federal troops from South Carolina. Southern states were granted “home rule,” in that the federal government largely ignored the problems that remained in these states. This would lead for more discrimination of blacks without the presence of union troops or laws to protect them, and lay the road for the era of Jim
The First Redemption was the Southern Democrats reclamation of Southern states and some border states, marking their return to political power after the civil war. Southern Democrats hid behind economic disagreements with republicans, such as state expenditures and public schools, to disguise the policies created that directly attacked the changes wrought by Reconstruction. (Foner 182) Democrats called for a return of “intelligent policy holders” to power. (Foner 182) Democratic achieved this by implementing policies that attacked black suffrage by creating poll taxes in many states that disenfranchised blacks. In Maryland, democrats reoriented representation to former plantation counties, taking it away from Baltimore. …show more content…
The evidence, however, contradicts such an interpretation.” (186) Foner believes that the membership of the Ku Klux Klan has been disputed by historians because farmers and laborers made up most of the Klan’s membership and these types of members were much more likely to carry out the actual violence of the klan than professionals with more to lose. Hower, Foner says that these professionals picked the targets and did, while maybe not at as high as a rate, participated in the attacks. Foner quotes Abram Colby, a black legislator in Georgia, that some of the men in the Klan were “not worth the bread they eat,” yet some were “first-class men in our town.”
Foner, discussing the effects of the 1877 compromise that settled the election of 1876, writes that “James A. Garfield, who left the meeting early, believed ‘a compact of some kind was mediated’ at Wormley House, but the terms of the ‘Bargain of 1877’ remain impossible to determine with any precision” …show more content…
The Nation wrote of the Bargain that “The negro, will disappear from the field of national politics. Henceforth, the nation, as a nation, will have nothing more to do with him.” This may seem extreme, but after the bargain, Hayes, a republican, removed the federal troops from South Carolina. Southern states were granted “home rule,” in that the federal government largely ignored the problems that remained in these states. This would lead for more discrimination of blacks without the presence of union troops or laws to protect them, and lay the road for the era of Jim