Demonstrate the extent to which southern whites wre forced to accept, for a time, regimes they did not want to

Question

Demonstrate the extent to which southern white were forced to accept, for a time, regimes they did not want.

THE FAILURE OF RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
CIVIL WAR

Answer 1

Suffrage was granted to the black male population; and by the third section of the 14th Amendment (adopted 1868) to the Constitution, the former political leaders of the South were denied participation in the various state governments set up by the Reconstruction Acts.

The resulting Reconstruction governments provoked great resentment in the South. Most white southerners claimed that the blacks who won office during Reconstruction were incapable of running the government. Southerners also contended that the white northerners who had moved to the South and earned positions in the Reconstruction governments sought only to plunder southern treasuries (see Carpetbaggers). These charges, however, were generally untrue. Although economic opportunism and official corruption were certainly facts of life in the South, they were no more prevalent than elsewhere in the nation. Southerners simply were unwilling to accept any form of government in which blacks and northerners played a significant role. They attempted to disrupt the Reconstruction governments with outbreaks of violence and through intimidation, orchestrated principally by the secret society known as the Ku Klux Klan. The North eventually grew tired of imposing Reconstruction by force, and by 1877 white southerners had regained control of all their state governments.

Answer 2

Well, there was marital law in the Southern states during Reconstruction. Southern white males were not allowed to vote or hold office unless they took an oath of allegiance. Therefore, all branches of government were controlled by those elements who were loyal to the Union--it was at this time that African Americans were elected to Congress from states in the Deep South.