Ensuring voting rights for African Americans
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights as whites. They believed the Confederates were traitors and that they should be punished for their roles in the American Civil War. Following Lincolnâ??s assassination, they vigorously opposed President Johnsonâ??s lenient approach to the south and engaged in a fierce political battle with him.
the moderate republicans believed that blacks should not have their rights. The radical republicans had a vision of whites and blacks living in the same community without fighting," even a hundred years later they will still have this same problem, that they solved in the 60's called the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr was a key figure in this issue. Back to the 1800's they both thought they should live together without fighting.
Federalists and the Democratic Republicans. Federalist leader was Alexander Hamilton. Democratic Republicans was Thomas Jefferson.
Charles Sumner
Democrats and Ex Confederate, Moderate Republicans, and Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans rewrote the Reconstruction and Force acts. These were to block blacks from being allowed to vote during elections.
the conflict was between Jonhson and the republicans
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens
The one that provided for basic needs of the war refugees.
Andrew Johnson, because he vetoed bills passed by radical Republicans during the Reconstruction Era.
Radical Republicans wanted equal rights for freedmen (freed black slaves) and they also wanted a tougher stance against the south.
The North and South should take equal responsibility for causing the Civil War
The North and South should take equal responsibility for causing the Civil War
Helped big business. (apex)
Senator Charles Sumner (MA) and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (PA)