history discussion board wk 3

“North, South and West” Please respond to the following: (Note: Please make a substantive comment to peer post below)

https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/HIS/105/1138/Week3/Scenario/story.html

• From the scenario, examine the impact of immigration on the need for post-Reconstruction period legislators to create policies. Provide at least two (2) reasons why white politicians saw other minority groups as a threat and acted to limit their freedoms. Provide a rationale for your response

RESPOND PEER POST:

White politicians saw other minority groups as a threat and acted to limit their freedoms. During the Reconstruction era, blacks constituted absolute majorities of the populations in Mississippi and South Carolina equal to the white population in Louisiana, and represented more than 40% of the population in four other former Confederate states. Southern whites, fearing black domination, resisted the Freedmen’s exercise of political power.  In 1867, black men voted for the first time. By the 1868, Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia had still not been re-admitted to the Union. Radical Republican Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant was elected president thanks to 700,000 black voters. In February 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified; it was designed to protect blacks’ right to vote from infringement by the states.

White supremacist paramilitary organizations, allied with Southern Democrats, used intimidation, violence and assassinations to repress blacks and prevent them from exercising their civil rights in elections from 1868 until the mid-1870s. The insurgent Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was formed in 1865 in Tennessee (as a backlash to defeat in the war) and quickly became a powerful secret vigilant group, with chapters across the South. The Klan initiated a campaign of intimidation directed against blacks and sympathetic whites. Their violence included vandalism and destruction of property, physical attacks and assassinations, and lynching’s. Teachers who came from the North to teach freedmen were sometimes attacked or intimidated as well. Under the Force Acts of 1870, the KKK was suppressed by federal prosecution.