Radical Republicans

large changes to the French government. Before 1870, France was a monarchy. However, the monarchy was challenged by republicans, making most of the political change due to the monarch versus republican split. France faced new political parties, including socialists, moderate republicans, radicals, and monarchists. Each…

The Radical Republican in congress set forth laws and Constitutional Amendments to protect the civil and political right to black men. Even though African American men began voting in the south shortly after 1867, the majority of the north states denied them of this basic right. This seemed to be a push for equal rights at the time for black male suffrage; however, the underlying truth was that the Republican votes were declining in the north, and they feared…

and economy. Suddenly, there existed a class of single, independent, working women, as well as men. The growing gap between classes emerged as a means for affluent individuals to get involved in (pro or anti) abolitionist and feminist movements. Radicals emerged from both sides who had the time and money to provoke destruction to opposing viewpoints. One such example was John Brown, a religious fanatic, and militant abolitionist. Brown led a massacre against a pro-slavery settlement with the…

the civil rights of African Americans. For the first time, black men in the South were given the right to vote and hold office, and the previously politically powerless African-American community united with their white counterparts to bring the Republican Party to power. But for all of the rights and freedoms supposedly given to African Americans, there was an equal amount of restrictions placed upon them. While it is believed that African Americans gained both political and economic privileges…

the presidency and adopted similar plans to Lincoln. Johnson took out the ten percent plan and in order for a state to rejoin they need to accept the thirteenth amendment, which formally and directly abolished the practice of slavery. Some radical republicans stated that the Confederates had in fact left…

vote based on grounds of race, color, or previous servitude. Over a decade after the end of the war, Hayes was elected to office. The Democrats attempted to prolong this decision, but their attempt failed. A compromise began between the northern Republicans and southern Democrats. Both parties wished to put the war behind them and continue on with their lives and try to strengthen the American economy. Hayes tried to ease tension and promised to help the levees in Mississippi that were…

Introduction The American Civil War was fought by two sides: The Union which was fighting to preserve the statehood and the continuity of the United States of America, and the Confederacy which was fighting to preserve their economic interests and in justifying the practice of slavery with it. From the initial battle at Fort Sumter, to the final stages of the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederate forces suffered heavy losses economically, politically, and socially. A rough estimate of…

debate on the expansion of slavery and eventually disbanded the strongest bond at the time for unity in the Union which was the two party system. The Dred Scott decision also led to the Civil War because the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidated the Republican platform of restricting slavery’s expansion and the popular sovereignty doctrine.…

The Civil War was the darkest and bloodiest period in American history with 620,000 lives lost. After it’s end America needed a period of rebuilding, Reconstruction. Reconstruction lasted throughout the U.S. from 1865 to 1877. Who, the North or South, put an end to America’s reassembly in 1877? The South killed Reconstruction through violent, political, and social conflicts. Hate crimes ran rampant in the South during the Reconstruction Era. The amount of violence was so extreme it was even…

after the divisions of opinion from the Citizen Genet affair and Jay’s Treaty formed into political parties. One of those was the Democratic-Republicans, a group that united against Hamilton’s economic policies and Jay’s Treaty. The organization was designed by James Madison and a few other Virginians, who organized a loose collection of Democratic-Republican societies into a well-disciplined and consistent voting party. The party favored limited government, and opposed the national bank as…