The answer is redemption. In United States history, the Redeemers were a political alliance in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that trailed the Civil War. Redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the traditional, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party, who shadowed a policy of Redemption, seeking to exile the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and "scalawags". They normally were led by the rich landowners, businessmen and professionals, and dominated Southern politics in most parts from the 1870s to 1910.
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Texas, which had been settled by colonies of Americans, fought a successful war for independence from Mexico in 1836. Mexico refused to recognize the independence and warned that annexation to the United States meant war.
The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines as territories.
