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Nov 7, 2022 · Broadly summarized, the meme claims that Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly supported three key additions to the U.S. Constitution: the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which abolished...
From their point of view, Reconstruction was a tragic period of American history in which vengeful White Northern radicals took over the South. In order to punish the White Southerners they had just defeated in the Civil War, these Radical Republicans gave ignorant freedmen the right to vote.
In the winter of 1866, Republican legislators sought to frame laws that would protect the freed slaves and give their party a chance to gain a foothold in the South. Three measures defined the emerging struggle between the Republican Congress and Andrew Johnson.
Aug 27, 2020 · CNN — Republicans tried to claim their political ancestors at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, casting back to Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, to argue they...
With the Thirteenth Amendment, Republicans now asserted the right of Congress to abolish slavery in the states where in already existed. Thanks to his incredibly thorough narrative of the development of emancipation, Oakes is able to capture the drama of this shift in a way that few previous historians have managed.
In the 1864 presidential race, former Free Soil Party candidate John C. Frémont threatened a third-party run opposing Lincoln, this time on a platform endorsing an anti-slavery amendment. The Republican Party platform had, as yet, failed to include a similar plank, though Lincoln endorsed the amendment in a letter accepting his nomination.
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The Republican free-soil principle was actually a political and moral compromise with the institution of slavery, and Republican leaders were something less than willful agents of violent social revolution.
