"Reconstruction was fitfully under way in 1867. The Radical Republican plan had just been implemented. New state constitutions were drafted, black freedmen voted in and were elected to southern legislatures, and white southerners struggled to regain control of their land in the new South. Southerners who initially accepted Northerners in their region now looked on them with suspicion and coined the term "carpetbagger" to describe them. The 1868 Presidential Election was a referendum on Reconstruction. Though many agreed with the Democrats openly-white supremacist platform, more were soothed by the "Let Us Have Peace" theme of Ulysses S. Grant's campaign."
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