Part one of term paper
I believe that the Radical Republican's Reconstruction was unsuccessful. First of all, under the Reconstruction, the South was divided into 5 military territories, which was placed under a general to oversee the new constitutions. Since the South was occupied by the military, the unionists, the Republicans, and the state government regained ...

Part two of term paper
... allowed having traditional white leadership in control. Therefore, another secret society called the redeemers gained power and Southerners passed laws that restricted political rights of the blacks. The laws contained subtle discrimination; it allowed only males to vote who could pass the literacy test or pay poll taxes in order to vote. Furthermore, the grandfather clause stated that a man was still permitted to vote provided that his father or grandfather had been eligible to do so. It didn't ...