22 mayo 1866 año - 1866 Congressional Elections

Descripción:

Power shifts to Radical Republicans. Republicans had a 3-to-1 majority in Congress

Radical Republicans: The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s. With the Confiscation Act in 1861, Radical Republicans began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. (led by Charles Sumner in Senate, who was beaten on Senate floor by Preston Brooks in 1856). (led in house by Thaddeus Stevens, an advocate of freedmen's political and economic rights)

importance: "With such men at the fore, and with congressional Republicans now numerous and united enough to override Johnson’s vetoes on many questions, Congress proceeded to remake Reconstruction."

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