Some white southerners used intimidation tactics, violence, and voter suppression methods, such as the implementation of poll taxes and literacy tests, to try to overcome Republican rule. These methods aimed to limit the political power of Black voters and maintain white supremacy in the South during the Reconstruction era.
No
Violence
Scalawags
Yes. Scalawag was the name used by Southern Democrats for white Southern Republicans who worked in Reconstruction governments.
They didn't have much economic opportunity in the old South.
scalawags :)
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - WASPS
Carpet Baggers
No
Violence
Scalawags. White Southerners supporting the Republicans.
Violence
Violence
Violence
Violence
Violence
Violence