The political ideas of the Radical Republicans were the strict policies of slavery. Many Southerners still refused to accept abolishing slavery in the 14th Amendment and believed Africans should not have equal rights.
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans.
Radical Republicans wanted to oversee Reconstruction because they wanted to let the blacks have their equal rights that are stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Effect: Ensured Lincoln's re-election and ended south's last hope of achieving independence by political means
The South didn't receive sympathetic treatment because the Radical Republicans gained power in Congress, thus giving them the power to override President Johnson's vetoes. The Radical Republicans wanted to make the Reconstruction process slow so that major social and economic changes could be made. They were supportive of black's rights and they wanted to make sure the whites in the South accepted the 14th Amendment and the freedom of the blacks.
radical republicans
Radical Republicans
The challenge facing the United States after the US Civil War was awesome. The political problems of reconstructing the Union were based on radical Republicans who wanted to place all blame for the Civil War on the South. This was very political as the radical Republicans wanted to make the rebellious South "pay" for this horrible war that devastated the nation.
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans.
Radical Republicans
They referred to themselves as "Radical Republicans" .
The three primary goals of the Radical Republicans were to prevent the leaders of the Confederacy from returning to power; to ensure that the Republicans became a force to be reckoned with in the South; and for the federal government to help African Americans.
they wanted to keep slavery
One major area of disagreement between Abraham Lincoln and Radical Republicans is that Lincoln wanted to restore the United States by uniting North and South after the Civil War. Radical Republicans wanted to keep the South and North separate.
Reconstruction had absolutely nothing to do with rebuilding Southern infrastructure that was destroyed primarily by the North. Reconstruction and the goal of the radical republicans was to re-build the political male-up of the South to "look like" the north.
Radical Republicans wanted equal rights for freedmen (freed black slaves) and they also wanted a tougher stance against the south.