Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
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Charles Sumner
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.
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.
Lies and deceit with the help of Fox News repreatedly reminding voters that the democrats were "the party of secession"
African-American freed slaves in the South faced a number of struggles after the Civil War. ... During this time, the federal government also attempted to provide aid to black ... After the Civil War, Republicans took control of all Southern state .