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Readmitting Rebel States (1868)

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The Reconstruction of the United States

Seven former Confederate states were admitted back into the union in 1868. The process of re-admittance says so much about the state of the country at that moment. Democrats are sympathetic to slavery and would like to see it continue, Jody Avergan writes.

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