The provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867 were that the South would be divided into 5 military regions, members of the ruling class before the war lost their voting rights, and in order for the Southern states to reenter the Union, they had to approve new state constitutions that gave the vote to all men, including African Americans and they had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
One of the more important provisions of the Radical Republicans Reconstruction Act of 1867 was that it put the south under military rule. During this time southern governments built railroads to try and improve the economic conditions.
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.
Both Lincoln and Johnson favored a lenient reconstruction. They believed the nation could best be served by leaving the brutality of the Civil War behind quickly, while radical republicans argued that the South should be punished for starting the Civil War.
The provisions of Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction were incorporated into a peace convention, which the Radical Republicans and the officers of the federal government found too much favourable towards the former Confederate States. In few words they thought that the war had not been fought to end in what it would have meant a virtual recognition of Southern sovereignty.
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans
radical republicans were people who were really important and they were somehow involved in reconstruction in which African Americans began to gain more rights in the u.s.
Unfortunately, the view of Radical Republican prevailed in Reconstruction.
they view the reconstruction with a hatred, because they were on the side of the slaves
radical republicans lost power
Radical Republicans
Democrats and Ex Confederate, Moderate Republicans, and Radical Republicans
The attemps of the Radical Republicans to control reconstruction policy were successful
It was deemed to be required by the Radical Republicans in Congress.
Radical Reconstruction was the name of one of the phases of reconstruction: the one instigated by a faction that called themselves the Radical Republicans. The Radical Republicans who swept to power in 1866 considered the first phase of Reconstruction (called the Presidential Reconstruction since it was led by Presidents Lincoln and Johnson) too moderate. In 1873 white supremacist soutern Democrats who called themselves Redeemers returned to power and ended Reconstruction.