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…showed last 75 words of 444 total…not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Not all members of Congress were supportive of these Reconstruction actions. Conservative Democrats (sympathy to the South) were total against any measures that gave blacks any rights or land. This type of split support was the same type of problem that the states had encountered before, that led to the Civil War.