Video: The Political Struggle

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This video provides an overview of how the dilemma between healing and justice fueled a political battle between President Andrew Johnson and congressional Republicans over Reconstruction policy. It covers important contextual information about the history of Radical Reconstruction and the civil rights gains of that period, including Radical objections to Johnson's plan, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the 1867 Reconstruction Acts.

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