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What do you think of Thaddeus Stevens’s plan to confiscate and redistribute lands of the planter class in the former Confederacy?

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He thought that with money from the sale of the remaining confiscated land, the U.S. government could pay off its war debt and finance pensions for Union soldiers and their families.

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