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What Price Freedom: Republicans Legislate Harsher Approach to Reconstruction

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Abstract
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 are also concerned that a revived Democratic party in the South might link with its Northern counterpart and challenge Republicans who had just waged and won the war for the Union. During this period great constitutional changes are occurring, the most since the Bill of Rights in the early history of the U.S. The 13th amendment freed people who had been slaves since 1607; the 14th amendment made them citizens and guaranteed them equal protection of the law, and the 15th amendment gave them the right to vote.
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African-American History, American History, American Studies, U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Unfinished Nation, The
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