Radical Republicans

They had two leaders, Senator Benjamin Wade, and Representative Henry Winter Davis. The Radical Plan taken Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan into a more stricter idea toward the peole, the Wade-Davis Bill was created to place the authority for reconstruction with the Congress. The Wade-Davis Bill required at least 50 percent of a seceded state voters…

South and the United States as whole after the Civil War, also known as The War of Northern Aggression in the South. These plans have been proposed by the late President, Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson, and leader of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican party, Thaddeus Stevens. Each plan has varying degrees of punishments towards seceders and varying views upon slavery and the former Confederacy. With the late president's’ plan being the most lenient and Stevens’ plan…

the death of the president. These new politicians were called Radical Republicans and had two main goals in mind, first, they blamed the south for the war and believed that they should be punished and secondly they wanted to help all of the over 4 million now free black people. They believed that it was their duty to defend and protect the now free African American population. During this time there were three major Radical Republican leaders who were known as Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens,…

The Reconstruction period was a major downfall, mostly toward the African Americans. The Radical Republicans failed as well with their job to protect the African Americans or former slaves from the white persecution that was going on at the time. Also the Northern democrats felt as though they wanted to stop all of what was going on throughout the whole reconstruction, including the right to fight for blacks rights, they wanted it all the end. While the ex-confederates choose to fill no remorse…

Constitution are referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments. ("Reconstruction (1865-1877) - Videos & Lessons | Study.com," n.d.) They address subjugation, citizenship and voting rights. Generally, the Radical Republicans didn 't have the purest thought processes, and they didn 't utilize the most just techniques for accomplishing their objectives. In any case, history has demonstrated that the disputable Reconstruction Amendments, which were intended to ensure…

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth was one of the most impactful moments in American history. Booth was the last person people would have suspected because he was a famous, handsome, and well-loved actor. However, on April 15, 1865, America was forever changed. Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction and peace following the Civil War were destroyed, leaving the racist and oppressive President Andrew Johnson to take over. Booth’s actions had cultural, historical,…

Reconstruction The word reconstruction has two definitions. One with a lowercase letter and one with a capital letter. The action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed is the definition with a lowercase letter. The process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War is the definition with a capital letter. The Civil War was a very hard and devastating war. Reconstruction was very much needed by both definitions. A goal of…

Radical Republicans thought that blacks should have the same rights and opportunities as whites. They were only unified because of their same goal to help African Americans. To help reshape those liberties, they first wanted to punish the confederate leaders for their part in the civil war. Since the confederate leaders wanted slavery to stay, it would be revenge for those who had to work for them all those years. The Radical Republicans most important attempt to reshape civil liberties for free…

Equal Protection for English Language Learners Equal protection is a right of the people including students in school. The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution is what has enabled this right. The Equal Protection Clause is considered and important law in public education and courts have invoked it to prohibit segregation of children due to race, stop sex-based discrimination in a school setting, guarantee school access to children whose parents are not legal citizens and protect gay and…

what James Oakes has done with his book “The Radical and the Republican” an analysis and documentary on how these two men of history were connected. Oakes took great interest in showing the personal relation between Lincoln and Douglass, along with giving a brutally honest view of their personal lives through the…