Were The Redeemers Ethical Or Unethical?
The Redeemers were a political alliance in the south, consisting of the pro-business wing of the Democratic Party, the conservative, and the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, generally businessmen, professionals, slave owners, and wealthy landowners. They worked forward to remove the Radical Republic alliance of scalawags, carpetbaggers, and Freedmen, because the radical republican system was viewed unethical to following the correct Republican proposition. The Redeemers reduced government spending, by lowering salaries of politicians, reduced funding to public education, and social assistances to railroads and businesses. The Democrats changed the regulations of voter registration, to prevent blacks and the poor from voting and participating