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An engrossing array of news, this pleasing quantity chronicles an historic tradition. The e-book offers grisly debts of revenge and knightly exploits, a desirable eyewitness account of a hara-kiri rite, stories of vampires and samurai, Buddhist sermons, and the plots of 4 No performs. 38 illustrations.

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Republicans resolved to form new state governments in the South and enfranchise the freedmen. After some embittered debate in which Republicans and the remaining Democrats in Congress argued over the meaning and memory of the Civil RECONSTRUCTION War itself, the First Reconstruction Act passed in March 1867. This plan, unACTS OF der which the southern states were 1867–1868 actually readmitted to the Union, incorporated only a part of the Radical program. 1). Confederate leaders designated in the Fourteenth Amendment were barred from voting until new state constitutions were ratified.

These resounding phrases became powerful guarantees of African Americans’ civil rights—indeed, of the rights of all citizens—in the twentieth century. Nearly universal agreement emerged among Republicans on the amendment’s second and third provisions. The second declared the Confederate debt null and void and guaranteed the war debt of the United States. NorthCONGRESS VS. S. government. The third provision barred Confederate leaders from holding state and federal office. Only Congress, by a two-thirds vote of each house, could remove the penalty.

14, 1873 Feb. 23, 1870 Jan. 4, 1876 ALA. Jul. 14, 1868 Nov. 16, 1874 GA. Jun. 25, 1868 Nov. 28, 1876 Jul. 15, 1870 Nov. 1, 1871 ATLANTIC OCEAN Military District No. 3 LA. Military District No. 5 Jun. 25, 1868 Jan. 2, 1877 FLA. Jun. 25, 1868 Jan. 2, 1877 Gulf of Mexico MEXICO 200 0 0 200 400 miles 400 600 kilometers The Congressional Reconstruction Plan tage to rebels and traitors. Although the Radicals may have been out ahead of public opinion, most northerners feared for “the future peace and safety of the Union” if Johnson’s approach to Reconstruction prevailed.

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