Reconstruction era

The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a conservative and right-wing political party in the United States. It emerged as the main rival of the Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.

The Ku Klux Klan, sometimes referred to as the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist and far-right hate group. Historians widely identify it as one of the earliest terrorist groups in the United States, citing its organized use of violence and intimidation to influence political and social conditions, particularly in the post-Civil War South. Across its three major iterations, the Klan has operated as a secret society made up of multiple affiliated organizations that used threats, assaults, and killings to advance their aims. Over its various eras, its targets included African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.

racist belief that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds

state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States

era after American Civil War (1865–1877)

1865 Reconstruction amendment abolishing slavery

1868 amendment addressing citizenship rights, civil and political liberties

1870 amendment prohibiting denial of voting rights on the basis of race

23rd quadrennial U.S. presidential election

right|thumb|1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, or social gain. The term broadly included both individuals who sought to promote Republican politics (including the right of African Americans to vote and hold office) and individuals who saw business and politica

American historical negationist ideology that holds that the cause of the Confederacy during the American Civil War was a just and heroic one

thumb|350px|An 1868 cartoon, threatening that the Ku Klux Klan (represented by a Democratic donkey) would lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) once [[Horatio Seymour won the presidency. (The winner was actually Ulysses S. Grant.)]] In United States history, scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) was a pejorative term that referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.

attempt to redistribute land during the US Civil War

discriminatory state and local laws passed after the Civil War

faction of the 19th-century U.S. Republican Party

Settlement of the 1876 U.S. presidential election

Southern US paramilitary organization (post-Civil War)

thumb|Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans marching in [[Arlington National Cemetery in 2014|300px]]

autobiography of Booker T. Washington

Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution

white paramilitary group from the United States

United States bureau responsible for improving freed slaves' conditions

American slogan

penal labor system in the Southern United States

speech by Booker T. Washington

1866 United States Supreme Court case

efforts in the Southern United States to prevent black citizens voting

surrender of the Confederate States at the end of the American Civil War

19th-century US equal rights association

political phrase of the US Reconstruction era

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. Their policy of Redemption was intended to oust the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and "scalawags". They were typically led by White yeomen and dominated Southern politics in most areas from the 1870s to 1910.

national park in South Carolina