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    White men in post-Reconstruction South Carolina reestablished political and social authority through violence. Poor white men were often blamed for violence against free black people. The "world they had lost" refers to the world before Reconstruction, when white people had the most rights and authority over black people. White Southern men saw it as their responsibility to exercise authority over white women, children, and black people. "Armed police" were created in response to the South being forced to accept abolition, which threatened the existing social order. Republican leaders hoped unified black and white militias would help bring the races together. However, white Southerners saw black militias as terrifying and illegitimate because they rejected black citizenship and rights.

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    White men in post-Reconstruction South Carolina reestablished political and social authority through violence. Poor white men were often blamed for violence against free black people. The "world they had lost" refers to the world before Reconstruction, when white people had the most rights and authority over black people. White Southern men saw it as their responsibility to exercise authority over white women, children, and black people. "Armed police" were created in response to the South being forced to accept abolition, which threatened the existing social order. Republican leaders hoped unified black and white militias would help bring the races together. However, white Southerners saw black militias as terrifying and illegitimate because they rejected black citizenship and rights.

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    Steve Kantrowitz

    “One Man’s Mob is Another Man’s Militia”


    Guided Reading Questions, Part 1

    1. In Post-Reconstruction South Carolina, how did white men reestablish their political and
    social authority? (67)​The white men reestablished their political and social authority
    with violence.
    2. What group was blamed for the violence inflicted upon free Blacks in South Carolina?
    (67)​Poor white men were often blamed for the violence inflicted upon free Blacks
    in South Carolina.
    3. Professor Kantrowitz writes of a “world they had lost.” Who is “they”, and what “world”
    was “lost”? (67-8)​”They” means white people. The “world” that was “lost” was
    white people’s lives before REconstruction. Before REconstruction they had the
    most rights and they had all the authority while blacks had none.
    4. What does Kantrowitz state that white Southern men saw as their “responsibility”?
    (68)​Kantrowitz states the white Southern men are responsible for exercising their
    authority over white women, children and the blacks.
    5. For what reason(s) were “armed police” created (68)​”Armed police” were created as a
    result of abolition being forced upon the South. Abolition threatened the social
    order.
    6. How did Republican leaders hope to unify blacks and whites in the South? (68-9)​By
    having black soldiers be around white men.
    7. Why were African-American militias terrifying to White southerners? (69)​White
    Southerners believed that black men were unfit for citizenship. They thought that
    black men were ignorant and nothing but a mob.
    8. Define “polity” and explain how it relates to the main themes of this article. ​Polity is a
    system of government. During the Reconstruction era, the government was
    changing to give black people rights and freedoms. When poor white men saw
    this, they got angry. The power dynamic began to change and they didn’t like it.
    Black men began to be in militias, white men saw this as an illegitimate thing.
    They rejected this policy and rebelled.
    9. In the eyes of white men in South Carolina, how did they define “the mob”? (69)​White
    men in South Carolina defined “the mob” as the leaders and supporters of Radical
    Reconstruction.
    10. How did men like James Henry Hammond define “manhood and citizenship”? (69)
    Men like James Henry Hammond might define “manhood and citizenship,” as standing
    up for what you believe, even if you have to kill people. Men like him think that black
    people need to be slaves with no rights. When that doesn’t happen, they resort to
    violence to put black people back in line.

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