The white conservative southerners that got into office to stop reform were called redeemers. An entire generation of white conservative southerners that were children when the war began were now grown up and could run for office and vote. The US congress allowed the freedmen's bureau to expire. General amnesty act of 1872. Restored most confederate rights to vote. The southern republicans were now outnumbered by conservative democrats. White-supremacy was restored in the south, and the north let them do it.

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