Original sentence: Local reaction to the Memphis Riots resulted in major changes towards modernization the city's police force.Reports of the riot discredited President Andrew Johnson, who was from Tennessean and had been military governor of Tennessee under Lincoln.Tennessee was required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before being allowed to return to the Union in July 1866.The Radical Republicans swept the congressional elections of 1866 and obtained a veto-proof majority in Washington.The Radical Republicans were able to pass key pieces of legislation, such as the Reconstruction Acts and Force Acts, which rewrote the election laws for the South by guaranteeing citizenship, equal protection of the laws, and due process to former slaves.The change in political direction, initiated in response to the race riots, ultimately enabled former slaves to obtain the full rights of citizenship.The outcome of the Memphis riot and a similar incident (the New Orleans Riot) was to increase the political power of Radical Reconstructionists and to promote the development of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution
Edited sentence: Locally, the Memphis Riots resulted in major changes towards modernization of the city's police force.Reports of the riot discredited President Andrew Johnson, who was from Tennessee and had been military governor of Tennessee under Lincoln.Subsequently, the Radical Republicans were able to pass key pieces of legislation, such as the Reconstruction Acts, Force Acts, and the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution which guaranteed citizenship, equal protection of the laws, and due process to former slaves.The Radical Republicans swept the congressional elections of 1866, obtaining a veto-proof majority in Washington.The change in political climate, initiated in response to the race riots, ultimately enabled former slaves to obtain the full rights of citizenship.The outcome of the Memphis riot and a similar incident (the New Orleans Riot) was to increase the political power of Radical Reconstructionists