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Zorluk: OrtaResistance to Reconstruction and its Ultimate Collapse

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

"The public are tired of these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South, and the great majority are now ready to condemn any interference on the part of the government. I hope you will be able to get along without federal aid. . . . If it should become necessary to send troops, I will do so, but the necessity must be very great."
—President Ulysses S. Grant, letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, September 1875

The sentiment expressed in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following developments?

  1. A
    The passage of the Reconstruction Acts to place the South under military administration.
  2. The political redemption of Southern states by Democratic coalitions that faced little federal resistance.Cevap
  3. C
    The Supreme Court's expansion of national citizenship rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  4. D
    The introduction of popular sovereignty to determine the legal status of labor in Southern states.

Cevap

The political redemption of Southern states by Democratic coalitions that faced little federal resistance.
The correct answer is correct because President Grant's refusal to send troops to Mississippi in 1875 illustrates the exhaustion of Northern political will to enforce Reconstruction policies. Deprived of federal military protection, Republican state governments were overthrown by Southern Democrats (Redeemers) using intimidation and voter suppression, a process referred to as the 'redemption' of the South.

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1
Analyze the stimulus context, identifying the sender (President Ulysses S. Grant), the recipient (Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames), the date (1875), and the core message (waning federal willingness to intervene militarily in Southern political violence).
Understanding that by 1875, Northern public opinion and federal leadership were increasingly unwilling to sustain the military occupation and enforcement of Reconstruction.
Establishing the historical context of late Reconstruction and the political pressures facing the Grant administration.
2
Connect this waning Northern resolve to the actions of Southern Democrats (Redeemers) during the mid-1870s.
Recognizing that without federal military protection, Republican state governments in the South were vulnerable to intimidation, electoral fraud, and violence by groups like the Red Shirts and White League.
Determining the direct cause-and-effect relationship between federal withdrawal/non-intervention and the political takeover of the South.
3
Evaluate the choices to find the development that directly resulted from this lack of federal intervention.
Identifying that the abandonment of federal intervention allowed Southern Democrats to complete the political 'redemption' of their states, effectively ending Republican rule.
Selecting the option that historically and logically follows from the primary source evidence.

Anahtar Kavram

The collapse of Reconstruction due to waning Northern resolve and the rise of Southern Democratic resistance.
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Resistance to Reconstruction and its Ultimate Collapse

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