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Reconstruction Era | The Radical Revolution | 2
American History Tellers
The Struggle to Overturn the 14th Amendment
The swing around the circle tour was an unmitigated disaster. President jonson's antics alienated voters and republican politicians exploited the backlash for their own campaigns. Republicans made ratification of the 14th amendment the central focus of the election. In january 1867 congress extended the vote to black men in washington dc and the western territories. Soon after republicans began hammering out their own reconstruction plan. And in february the joint committee on reconstruction approved a bill to impose military rule on the south. But when it arrived in the senate debate between moderate and radical republicans over extending suffrage to southern black men threatened to derail his passage. Imagine it's february 17th 1867
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