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What Price Freedom: Republicans Legislate Harsher Approach to Reconstruction
Republicans in Congress legislate a more radical version of reconstruction through a series of Reconstruction Acts they pass over Johnson's veto. It is clear that they don't want treasons Southerners in Congress within months of the war's end. They ...
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Struggle for Equality, The: Long Struggle for Citizenship and Right to Vote
Each excluded group first had to obtain citizenship. The only exception was white women who were citizens without political rights. As a result of the Civil War the rights of blacks were spelled out in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Cons...