Johnson favored conciliatory policies to the South and a rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states back to the union without due regard for freedman's rights. The Radical Republicans opposed.
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After taking office, President Johnson completely changed his views on Reconstruction, which stunned political backers.
A Radical is a person who relates to a political group associated with views of extreme change. He is in for a lonely life, people hate change.
Many immigrants came to the Middle colonies seeking religious freedom. (by Solomon Zelman)
Because he was the attorney general of the first Red scare which was a period(in the 1920's) where the government went after communists and others with radical views
he thought they would help in the south, and didn't want slavery to be abolished. In the year of the Constitutional Convention, his home state, CT had over 2,000 slaves.