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Ulysses S. Grant Eighteenth President 1869-77
\"Grant allowed Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the South, bolstering it at times with military force.\"
The Radical Reconstruction becomes more and more important. It is directed by very conservative and rasist Democrates that introduced the system of segregation even that the Fifteenth Amendment is in effect.
The Democrats denouncing the Reconstruction planned by the North, terroristic organizations like the Ku Klux Klan or the Knights of the White Camellia were formed. They became so dangerous that Grant had to use in 1871 extreme measures to stop their acts.
The \"Straight-out\" Democrats became more and more power. They were less radical than the K.K.K. and there methods were more \"civilized\" but they were very racist too. By the elections of 1874 they started a long Democratic dominance over the South that only ended after World War II.
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