Question

Why did Republican legislators in the Georgia General Assembly fail

Answer 1

Answer:

They were outnumbered by legislators in favor of the expulsions.

Explanation:

n September 1868 the legislature, dominated by Republicans, expelled its African American members. Energized, the Black legislators, led by Turner, successfully lobbied the federal government to reseat them. They continued to concentrate on political and civil rights. For many of them, education had been their highest priority since 1865. With their solid support, Georgia adopted public education.

Conservatives used terror, intimidation, and the Ku Klux Klan to "redeem" the state. One quarter of the Black legislators were killed, threatened, beaten, or jailed. In the December 1870 elections the Democrats won an overwhelming victory. In 1906 W. H. Rogers from McIntosh County was the last Black legislator to be elected before Black voters were legally disenfranchised in 1908.