Race and reunion: the civil war in american memory [The civil war and reconstruction era, 1845-1877]

Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::HistóriaPresents part of course, the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, when Professor Blight now turns to the role of national electoral politics, focusing in particular on the off-year Congressional election of 1874 and the Presidential election of 1876. Describes the year 1874 how the return of the Democrats to majority status in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Discusses when Republicans and Democrats brokered a deal by which Republican Rutherford B. Hayes took the White House in exchange for restoration of "home rule" for the Sout