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On 30 Mar 2006 06:33:10 -0800, "fgoodwin" <fgoodwin@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Congressional Reconstruction ends as Texas readmitted to Union
>
>http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/03-30-004.html
>
>On this day in 1870, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the act
>that ended Congressional Reconstruction and readmitted Texas to the
>Union.
>
>In the aftermath of the Civil War, Texas had been in turmoil, first
>under Presidential Reconstruction and then, beginning in 1867 with the
>passage of the First Reconstruction Act, under Congressional
>Reconstruction. The latter required that Texas have a constitutional
>convention, with delegates elected by all male citizens over the age of
>twenty-one, regardless of race, color, or "previous condition of
>servitude."
>
>The convention was to write a new state constitution that would provide
>for universal adult male suffrage. When the constitution had been
>written and the state had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment of the
>United States Constitution, Congress would consider the case for
>readmission to the Union.
>
>The convention met at Austin in June 1868 and did not adjourn until
>February 1869. The constitution it produced differed significantly from
>previous constitutions by authorizing a more centralized and
>bureaucratized system of government, with greater power in the hands of
>the governor.
>
>In February 1870 the Twelfth Legislature assembled at Austin to adopt
>the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments and select United States
>senators in preparation for readmission to the Union. They quickly
>approved the amendments and selected Morgan C. Hamilton for a six-year
>term and James W. Flanagan for a four-year term.
>
>This completed the requirements set by Congress for readmission.

The three biggest mistakes Texas ever made involved entering the
union, readmission, and electing a pickle kisser like Bush governor.