Chapter 13 Losing The Peace

• war was over
• could the South be reconciled?
• Republicans wanted to strengthen their position
• Democrats appeared "unpatriotic."
• black women, instrumental in campaigns
• blacks voted down the ticket Republican, Democrats were the racist party
• 1866, White retaliation, KKK
• secret societies developed
• Camelias and the Klan were the most powerful secret orders
• local efforts to suppress the Klan weren't effect
• habeus corpus was suspended
• 1865, white southerners resumed place at home
• 1871, recant of Confederacy
• white southerners were pardoned, Democratic party grew
• protective white militias formed
• whites kept blacks from the polls through terrorism
• black's houses and barns were destroyed
  
• the North had grown weary of the struggle for equality
  
• some blacks would not be silenced
• Supreme Court upheld blacks right to vote, declared Enforcement Act(black voter protection) of 1870-constitutional
• Democrats wanted to end Reconstruction in the South
  
• 1 878, armed forces in elections, not-allowed
• intimidation continued on a massive scale
• polling places were far from black communities
• dances and parties-bribes for black voters to comply
• obstacle: poll tax requirements, confusing election schemes, centralized election codes complicated process.
• poor farmers become dissatisfied with the Democratic Party
• radicals wanted regulation of railroads, state aid for agriculture, higher taxes on corporations
• The National Grange or Patrons of Husbandry was attracting thousands of farmers by 1870
• white solidarity with poor black farmers occurred
• blacks supported the Populist Party
• 1894, easier for blacks to vote, election machinery dismantled
• agrarian revolt collapsed in 1896, move for disenfranchisement continued
• disenfranchisement could work against poor whites
• a suffrage amendment disenfranchised blacks in Mississippi
• south Carolina disenfranchised blacks in 1895
• grandfather clause was created
• riots erupted at disenfranchisement
• Conservatives revived segregation of the races- laws against intermarriage
• blacks were banned from white hotels
• 1900s, many lynchings