Textbook Reading:
Bourbon Rule (pages 224-227) Ben Tillman (pages 232-237) |
Wade Hampton III: Many NamesSouth Carolina Governor: 1876-1879
Red Shirts: Leader of the Red Shirt terrorist group that led a campaign of violence, terror, and fraud to regain control of South Carolina Redeemers: Known as the "Redeemers" in South Carolina by Democrats because they redeemed the state from Republican carpetbag rule Bourbons: Hampton and his followers called themselves the Bourbons after the French royal family that retook the throne following the French Revolution. Conservatives: Hampton and his followers wanted to "conserve" the "Old South" with agriculture as the way of life and plantation elite in control |
Disenfranchisement of Blacks
Disenfranchise: to take away the right to vote or limit voting power
Gerrymandering:Redrawing district boundaries to give your party an advantage.
How it Disenfranchised Blacks: Black Republican voters were either packed into a smaller number of districts or spread apart into several in order to limit representatives. |
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Benjamin Tillman: The PopulistSouth Carolina Governor: 1890-1894
Skills: Speaking and Politics Populist: Appealed to the values and needs of the common man against the Conservative Elite Views: Ran on a platform of white supremacy Results: A reemergence of terrorism and increase in racial violence and lynching, as well as further disenfranchisement of blacks |
Constitution of 1895
Literacy Test:In order to vote, you had to pass a reading test that could easily be manipulated by poll workers to fail blacks
"Grandfather Clause":An law passed in response to the literacy test to protect illiterate whites. It stated that if your grandfather could vote, then you can as well.
Jim Crow Laws:Laws established to segregate public life between blacks and whites. Examples included schools, railroads, restrooms, etc.
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