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Texas Reconstruction History: Reunification, Davis’s Administration, and the Redeemers

Learn about Texas's readmission to the Union in 1870, Governor Davis's administration with state police and militia, and the rise of the Redeemers. Explore the end of Reconstruction, Democratic reversals, and the impactful Constitution of 1876.

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Texas Reconstruction History: Reunification, Davis’s Administration, and the Redeemers

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  1. READMITTED • Texas is readmitted to the Union – March 8, 1870 • Legislature ratified 14th & 15th amendments • United States • President Grant ended Reconstruction process • Withdrew military • Many Texans did not think Reconstruction was finished • Democratic beliefs still strong

  2. DAVIS’S ADMINISTRATION • Edmund J. Davis - 1869 • Programs under Gov. Davis • State police force and state militia; under governors control • Governor could declare martial law • Raised taxes – pay for schools & roads

  3. REDEEMERS • Opposition called Redeemers – wanted to redeem, or save, Texas from what they saw as the harmful actions of the Radical Republicans

  4. Opposition • Scalawag –southerners who supported Republicans • Carpetbagger – Northerners who moved to the South after the war • Obnoxious Acts – name given to Davis’s legislative program by the redeemers • feared he would use the state police and militia any opposition • feared he would appoint only Radicals to state offices

  5. END OF RECONSTRUCTION • Davis loses election of 1873 • Democrat- Richard Coke won • Davis claims election illegal – Supreme Court agreed • Coke still sworn in on January 15, 1874 • President Grant would not help • Davis surrendered office on Jan. 17th • Reconstruction ENDED

  6. END OF RECONSTRUCTION • Quickly the Democrats reverse many of the changes made by Davis • African Americans lose legal and political ground they had just gained • Constitution of 1876 • Limited power of the governor and legislature • Legislature to meet only every other year • Still serves as Texas’s constitution • Has been amended more times than most state constitutions (400 times to date)

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