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Unfortunately, Reconstruction did not go far enough. Foremost should have been the necessity of preparing a people who had been enslaved with no self determination to exist as free men in the United States. Slaves were, for the most part, uneducated as it had been illegal to educate them. On the other hand,l white planters had lost much of their livelihood, with no compensation for the slaves who had been freed by the government. Their anger at this financial blow as well as federal troops there to reinforce rights for their former slaves, led to the implementation of a harsh apartheid system that ninety years to demolish.
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Why was Reconstruction often called Radical Reconstruction?
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.
Why did some Americans opposed president Johnson's reconstruction plan?
Republican US Congress rejected Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan because it made too many concessions for former slave owners.
What was the process of bringing the Confederate states back into the Union?
Reconstruction
Is it true that The Republican Radicals in Congress disagreed with both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans because they were too lenient?
False!
Process whereby southern states were readmitted into the union?
reconstruction
