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Chapter 19 : Reconstruction |
Looking ahead to the end of the war, Lincoln proposed to deal generously with most Southerners. After Lincoln's assassination, President Johnson supported a similar Reconstruction plan. Southern leadership and abuses of African Americans changed little, however, under Johnson's plan. After bitter quarrels with Johnson that ended in impeachment, Congress took over Reconstruction.
Under Republican governments during Radical Reconstruction, African Americans won the right to vote. Voters elected many African Americans to public office. Many more received an education in Freedmen's Bureau schools. Southern Democrats resisted these changes in Southern politics and society. They used political tactics and terror to try to regain control. By 1877, they succeeded, and Reconstruction ended with white Southerners firmly in control.
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