The second sentence sounds correct...
Freedmen to exercise their new political rights<span>
</span>
The answer is redemption. In United States history, the Redeemers were a political alliance in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that trailed the Civil War. Redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the traditional, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party, who shadowed a policy of Redemption, seeking to exile the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and "scalawags". They normally were led by the rich landowners, businessmen and professionals, and dominated Southern politics in most parts from the 1870s to 1910.
Michelangelo's contribution to the basilica was the greatest of them. He was the only architect who worked on it whose plans were continued without significant changes after his death.
<u>Explanation:</u>
- It took more than a century to build St. Peters Basilica and was designed over time by Donato Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Fra Giocondo, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Baldassare Peruzzi, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and Michelangelo.
- Michelangelo's contribution to the basilica was the greatest of them.
- In the Catholic Tradition, the Basilica is believed to have been built upon the burial site of Christ’s Apostle Saint Peter. Pope’s have been interned in the Basilica since the early Christian era and a church has existed on the site since the 4th century. It is one of the four Major Basilicas, all of which are in Rome. It was built between 1506 and 1626.
