The Texas economy was fundamentally changed in 1901 when they found oil. It could be used to make fuel for the growing numbers of personal vehicles spreading throughout America, but so could crops. All major vehicles of the time could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency was a time of great change in the United States of America. His Democrats passed the 16th Amendment that overruled the Supreme Court ban on Federal Income Taxes, and he quickly initiated the first income taxes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though the Democrats dominated national Congressional politics in the later years of the 19th Century, they only managed to elect New York’s Glover Cleveland to the Presidency. Republican Presidents like Benjamin Harrison continued to push the restoration of Negro rights,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Negroes banned from carrying weapons to defend themselves and successfully denied the right to vote, what power base Republicans had in Texas and the other Southern States effectively evaporated. The literacy tests and poll taxes also weeded out many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah…I just passed my birthday again. At over forty, that puts me solid into the middling of my years, unless my plan to live forever works out. Then I’m just starting on this merry go round. 😉 I got a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Democrats established a firm control of Texas politics after Reconstruction ended, and their local paramilitary white supremacy organizations continued to suppress the vote of the former slaves. But when the freedmen pushed a Republican to the federal House of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1876 election is generally considered to be one of the most controversial elections in American history. Democrat organizations like the Red Shirts and White League operated openly, unlike the defunct KKK, organizing armed marches numbering in the thousands to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nearly 90% of the Texas Republican Party membership was freedmen in the 1870s. It was literally called the Negro Party because of this, though there was a small mixture of Northern Carpetbaggers and Southern Scalawags, what proper Southern gentlemen called[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1870s were effectively a time of undeclared war in much of America. The Ku Klux Klan hunted and killed Republicans and freedmen in the Southern States, and the Federal government declared them a terrorist organization. Federal troops occupied the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Republicans were worried as 1870 approached. The Three Fifths Compromise of the Constitution limited how many Representatives the Southern States received from their slave population, but they had still managed to greatly influence national politics in the half century[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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