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and after 40 years of Democratic rule they were gone.
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And then in '06,
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the Democrats take back both houses of Congress, etcetera.
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In essence, the '74 congressional elections
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were a referendum on Reconstruction.
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You'll remember the Slaughterhouse case had come out in '73.
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The Depression had set in surely by 1874, deeply,
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and certainly by the fall elections of 1874.
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This became the great takeover of Congress by the Democratic Party,
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so under duress since the Civil War,
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since they had been the party, in many ways,
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that had not favored the war for the Union