The Republicans gained control of Congress for the first time in eighteen years.
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The Republicans gained control for the first time in eighteen years.
Republicans gained control of Congress in 1866. Radical Republicans had the support of many Northerners who believed stricter measures should be taken against the former Confederate states. After the vicious violence in New Orleans that had killed dozens of Freedman, they supported the Radical Republicans and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Republicans gained control for the first time in eighteen years.
Democrats The first answer stated above is wrong about the 1866 elections. In that year the moderate Republicans lost ground to the Radical Republicans who effectively gained control of the US Congress.
2002 was a mid-term election. It was one of three times in the century in the party of the White House gained seats in Congress. The Republicans picked up seats in both houses. It also an election in which one incumbent senator from each party lost.
In the recent 2016 election the Republicans gained the most seats.
Members of the Congress called Radical Republicans vowed to take control of Reconstruction. Republicans were able to take control of Reconstruction because they had a solid majority - southern Democrats couldn't vote and northern Democrats had lost credibility (they were considered to be pro-Confederacy or, at least, in favor of settling the war vs. winning it). They did so out of profound philosophical differences with President Andrew Johnson over treatment of the former Confederate states and the newly-freed slaves.
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