During the US Civil War, the Radical Republicans supported a number of measures they believed were necessary to ensure the war between the states was being properly conducted by the Lincoln Administration. One measure was the Committee on the Conduct of the War.
Another measure was the 1863 conscription laws. Also, they convinced President Lincoln to have the Protestant feast day called Thanksgiving, into a national holiday.
One measure they supported, Lincoln would not even consider. That measure was to rewrite the beginning of the US Constitution to read that the USA was a Christian nation.
They also supported having Confederate leaders prosecuted after the war as men of treason. That measure US Grant flatly told Congress he would never enforce.
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
The one that provided for basic needs of the war refugees.
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens
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.
Helped big business. (apex)
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
Senator Charles Sumner (MA) and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (PA)