<span>Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress. In less than a decade, however, reactionary forces–including the Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South.</span>
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The reasons of war were many but there were two immediate ones. America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule. Also, the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
