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I have been reading about the US Civil War these last couple of weeks and I have come across that Lincolns VP Andrew Johnson he wanted to punish the Confederate ledership for treason. But his policies was cut short by a group in the US Congress named the Radical Republicans.

But what if there hadn't been this group in Congress?

What if Andrew Johnson had issued an order to try Jefferson Davis, Alexanders Stephens and several of top brass of CSA leadership for treason? Resulting in the death penality for the most of them.

How would this have effected Reconstruction?
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