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As the war ended, Congress sought to reassert its authority, as it would do after every subsequent war. In April 1865, the Republicans had made immense achievements in the eyes of the northern public: winning the war, preserving the Union, and freeing slaves. ... Whatever the extremes of the southern white attitudes, the dominant social reality in the spring of 1865 was that nearly four million former slaves were on their own, facing the challenges of freedom. ... Only through economic independence, the controlling of one’s own labor and land, could for
Stimulated by the Civil War to improve working conditions in northern factories, trade unions, labor reform associations, and labor parties flourished, culminating in the founding of the National Labor Union in 1866.
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