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The United States presidential election of 1860 formalized the split in the Democratic Party and brought about the American Civil War. [2] After the Reconstruction Era ended in the late 1870s, so-called redeemers were Southern Democrats who controlled all the southern states and disenfranchised African-Americans.
The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the American Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.
The Solid South was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During this period, the Democratic Party controlled southern state legislatures and most local, state and federal officeholders in the South were ...
As a result of a national Compromise of 1877 arising from the 1876 presidential election, the federal government withdrew its military forces from the South, formally ending the Reconstruction era. By that time, Southern Democrats had effectively regained control in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida – they identified as the Redeemers. In ...
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States into the United States.
The Anti-Federalists would later form a party called the Democratic-Republicans. Fast forward to 1828, and Andrew Jackson changed the Democratic-Republican Party's name to the Democrats.
After the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson undertook policies designed to bring the Southern United States back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans used Congress to block President Johnson's policies, which favored ex-Confederates.
This period of the 1960s also saw the rise of the Republican Party’s “Southern Strategy,” which capitalized on racial tensions to attract white Democratic voters who were angry about civil ...