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.
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Moderate republican agreed with Lincoln that the seceded states should be restored to the Union as simply and swiftly as reasonable but only on Congress plans, not the president's. The Radical republicans on the other hand believed that the SOuth needed to be painfully purnished for their sins. The Radical republicans wanted the South's social structure to be uprooted, the planters punished, and the newly emancipated blacks protected by federal power before they could be restored back into the Union.
Initially - around the time of Reconstruction - the Republican Party was considered radical.
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Moderate Republicans believe in the core beliefs of the Republican Party (smaller government and fiscal responsibility) while finding common ground with Democrats on legislation. A Moderate Republican could favor gay marriage and be pro choice or they could believe in progressive taxation and alternative energy just to name a few things. Most Moderate Republican's are against the Religious Right.
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