Ron Chernow Quote

The president was running out of room to maneuver as the country backed away from further federal interference in the South. The outcry over Louisiana began to ring down the final curtain on Reconstruction. Southern whites increasingly substituted the word Redemption—a restoration of white rule—for the hated term Reconstruction.

Ron Chernow

The president was running out of room to maneuver as the country backed away from further federal interference in the South. The outcry over Louisiana began to ring down the final curtain on Reconstruction. Southern whites increasingly substituted the word Redemption—a restoration of white rule—for the hated term Reconstruction.

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