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With Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals" was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a past slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stephens and Charles Sumner, who wished to punish the defeated South. When Johnson's plans placated the rebels at the expense of the freed dark-colored men, radicals inside your home impeached him for looking to fire Secretary of Warfare Edwin Stanton. Johnson was preserved from removal by one vote in the Senate trial, presided over by Salmon Run after. Even William Seward, Lincoln's closest ally in his pantry, seemed to waver. By 1868 election, united Republicans nominated Ulysses Offer, Lincoln's earning Union general. His attempts to reconcile Southerners with the Union and quash the rising Ku Klux Klan were undercut by postwar greed and problem during his two conditions. Reconstruction perished unofficially in 1887 when Republican Rutherford Hayes joined with the Democrats in a deal that removed the last federal soldiers from South Carolina and Louisiana. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson agreed upon a costs with protections first proposed in 1872 by Charles Sumner, the Radical senator from Massachusetts.
