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…
The election of 1868 was effectively a war without name. Former Confederate leaders and officers could not vote, while the freed slaves were all but guaranteed to vote in overwhelming numbers for Union General Grant who had helped free them.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We invaded Iwo Jima seventy-five years ago in our drive to advance to the Japanese Home Islanders during World War II. Over 500 ships and 110,000 men would assault the tiny island. We lost one ship, with two others damaged,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The administration Democrat President Johnson inherited after Republican President Lincoln’s assassination was aggressive in the form of Reconstruction it wanted to pursue. The Republicans wanted to erase Slavery and replace it with a true Free Society forever divorced from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Republicans ran the table in the post-victory election of 1866. They achieved two thirds majorities in both Houses, enough to override any vetoes from President Johnson, and quickly suspended the civilian governments in the Southern States. They enacted a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln changed everything for Reconstruction in the Southern States. He had run the 1864 election with a unity government made up of Republicans and Northern Democrats in an attempt to make the Civil War less[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Civil War left the Southern States in ruins. Forty percent of their livestock, farming equipment, and mechanized industries were wiped out. Their railroads had been torn up to destroy their ability to resupply their troops. And twenty five percent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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