Radical Reconstruction. After northern voters rejected Johnson's policies in the congressional elections in late 1866, Republicans in Congress took firm hold of Reconstruction in the South. ... Blacks won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress during this period.
The affect was One of the greatest controversies of the Renaissance would be the idea
of Humanism, which is the idea that humans can be good people. The
church leaders at that time didn't like this idea because they didn't
have the power over people that they used to have when they could say,
"God hates you because humans are sinful, so you have to do everything
we tell you to gain His forgiveness,"
The more battles he won, the more likely he would become president
