Readjuster n. : One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.

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Readjuster Party, debt, governor, free encyclopedia, Virginia, collapse, Democrats, 1870s, power, biracial, the party, William Mahone, Virginia politics, war debt, Republican, railroads, reduction, pre-war.

Defination from the web:
Readjuster Party was a political coalition formed in Virginia in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following the American Civil War. ... The Readjuster Party promised to "readjust" the state debt, repeal the poll tax (which had suppressed voting by blacks and poor whites) and ...