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Readmitting Rebel States (1868)

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The Military Intervention in the South After the Civil War

CNN's John Sutter says it takes military intervention to bring the South back into the Union. He says states like Georgia are extremely resistant to implementing a lot of these new changes. In Arkansas, he says, radical Republicans get to work even before congressional acts for reconstruction. The backlash to black freedom is immediate in some places and not so much in others.

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