The test run for reconstruction

Independence

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Tennessee
Here is something from the Tennessee Encyclopedia.net ;

"Tennessee politics had not returned to normal, however, for the state continued to be dominated by a Republican minority that commanded the allegiance of, at most, one-third of the total population. Nonexistent in the state prior to 1865, the party had emerged as a political vehicle for Unionists and, consequently, always was strongest in staunchly Unionist East Tennessee. Aided by a wartime edict of Military Governor Andrew Johnson that disfranchised Confederate sympathizers, Tennessee Republicans swept into power in March 1865, controlling the general assembly as well as the governorship, which was claimed by the mercurial parson and newspaper publisher William G. Brownlow. For four years the Brownlow government worked assiduously to maintain Republican supremacy. In 1865 the legislature formally disfranchised ex-Confederates. Two years later it took the drastic step of awarding the franchise to former slaves to expand the ranks of potential Republican voters, and the following year it authorized the governor to declare martial law in individual counties in order to counter the growing influence of the Ku Klux Klan."

By 1868,the Radical Tennessee government was crumbling because it was not representitive of the people and by 1870 Tennessee had elected Democrat John C. Brown as Governor.
Did the above play out on a larger scale with the 10 other Confederate States combined to be Tennessee's part and the Radical Congress playing the role of William Brownlow?
 
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