Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874
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Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of Reconstruction. Throughout this era, white Texans claimed that Radical Republicans in Congress were attempting to dominate their state through “Negro-Carpetbag-Scalawag rule.” In response to these p…
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Date:
March 15, 2012
Creator:
Howell, Kenneth W.
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