"We have resolved to take the government of this State into our own hands... We will no longer submit to the rule of carpet-baggers and illiterate negroes, supported by federal bayonets. The white people of the South must unite to restore local self-government and honest administration."
— Excerpt from an address by the Alabama Democratic State Executive Committee, 1874
Which of the following historical developments during the Reconstruction era best explains the perspective expressed in the excerpt?
- AThe establishment of Presidential Reconstruction policies that immediately placed the South under permanent federal military control.
- The organized efforts of white Southern Democrats, known as 'Redeemers,' to overthrow Republican-led state governments.Cevap
- CThe implementation of popular sovereignty to let Southern voters decide whether to retain their pre-war labor systems.
- DThe enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment, which Southern Democrats claimed permitted the federal government to appoint northern politicians to state offices.
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The organized efforts of white Southern Democrats, known as 'Redeemers,' to overthrow Republican-led state governments.
The correct option is the one stating that the excerpt reflects the efforts of white Southern Democrats, known as 'Redeemers,' to overthrow Republican-led state governments. In the mid-1870s, Redeemers ran on platforms of restoring white supremacy, reducing taxes, and ending what they called 'carpetbagger' rule, which directly aligns with the rhetoric of restoring 'local self-government' and opposing northern and African American political power.
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The Redeemer movement and white Southern resistance to Reconstruction state governments.
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