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To: SilentZ who wrote (339979)	6/10/2007 11:10:52 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572095

"How many Northern states couldn't blacks vote in by 1870" Good question. Most of the sources focus on the South and soft peddle the status of blacks in the North. According to this source u-s-history.com it was a factor in the election of 1868. In the Election of 1868, Grant achieved a narrow majority of the popular votes nationwide. His support from black voters in the South made the difference. Without those votes, he would have lost. The largest state Grant lost was New York (home state of Horatio Seymour, his opponent), which was conceded by a narrow margin. Blacks could not vote in the North - if they had had that right, Grant would have taken New York. It seems to imply that blacks didn't have the right to vote anywhere in the North. Definitely not in New York. According to this hss.caltech.edu Black males could only vote in New England. They could only vote in New York if that had "substantial property". So the answer to your question is "most". "the Republicans did legitimately help blacks in the South during Reconstruction." I never said differently. And the push for universal schooling and the railroads were a big help also. But when it is done at gunpoint, it breeds resentment. Just look at Iraq. In addition, the attempt to impose single party rule by the Republicans resulted in the South being ruled by a single party for a century, the Democrats.