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The History of the Fifteenth Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant embraced Congress's program for reconstruction, as well as Black suffrage. Congressional Democrats denounced the 15th Amendment; many Radical Republicans worried that it did not go far enough. It would take another 50 years before women of any race won the right to vote. By July 1870, every former Confederate state had been readmitted to the Union.
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