More loyalty, guarantee right to vote to African-Americans, denying to ex-confeds.
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Johnson's Impeachment
Disagreements with Congress
Tenure year Office Act
the law forbidding the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent.
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Election of 1868
R: Grants
D: Seymour
Grant wins landslide
Republicans in Congress emboldened (Feb. 1869 - 15th Amendment)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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