"Resolved, That the President of the United States is hereby requested to inform the House... whether any military force has been or is now employed by the United States in any of the late insurrectionary States to sustain the existing State governments... the people of the country earnestly demand the immediate withdrawal of such forces." — Congressional debate over withdrawal of federal troops, 1877
The removal of federal troops from the South most directly enabled which subsequent development?
- A
The federal prosecution of Ku Klux Klan members
- Bcheck_circle
Redeemer governments' disfranchisement of African American voters
- C
Immediate ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
- D
The breakup of large plantations through land redistribution
Explanation
With federal protection gone, Democratic "Redeemer" regimes used poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence to disfranchise black voters. The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870; Klan prosecutions occurred earlier under the Force Acts; meaningful land redistribution never happened.