Radical Republicans

the reign of terror’, revolutionary courts were assembled to protect the republic from its internal enemies. Many victims were persons who had opposed the radical activities of the sans-culottes. Approximately 16,00 people were officially killed and the bulk of terror’s executions took place in the areas of Lyons and Marseilles. The terror was at its most destructive in the Vendee’. In this reign, nobody was spared, women, priests, monks, children, all had been put to death. No doubt that this…

effect his own plan for reconstruction. Johnson’s plan although similar went further than Lincoln’s and pardoned the Confederates who owned taxable property in excess of $20,000.in 1865 alone he issued about 13,000 pardons. This angered the Radical Republicans of the time, because it once again handed all the power over to the rich planters of the south. The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau was established by congress in 1865, to…

December Thomas Paine…was found guilty of sedition for having written The Rights of Man, Part Second” (Unknown, 43). He readily identifies himself as a republican in the full title of the letter, “A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff on the Extraordinary avowal of his Political Principles contained in the Appendix to his late Sermon by a Republican” (Wordsworth, “Prose” 48). Throughout the letter he defends the sentiments of the rebellion and the drive of the common people to have a say in…

While some believe that the Revolutionary War was conservative, it was radical because in the end, it changed both America and nations across the globe. People consider the Revolutionary was to be conservative due to the leaders being conservative themselves. Having gentleman-like qualities while wearing powdered wigs is hard to believe as being radical. Compared to considered radical leaders like “Robespierre, Lenin, and Mao Zedong” who were dictators and created terror amongst the people for…

any equal rights, protection that ensures safety, a time of violence, the Ku-Klux-Klan, corrupt government and one of the toughest times of history. A few years after the Civil War, blacks were free and the States were divided. The North were radical Republicans who wanted to continue with Reconstruction and South who were the Democrats, but wanted to end Reconstruction. The South was ready to rebuild itself after the war and the Northern Federal troops withdrew. Reconstruction was a period of…

Reconstruction was the period where United States began to rebuild after the Civil War ended. There were a few plans that were introduced when Reconstruction occurred; Lincoln Plan, Johnson Plan May of 1865, and the Congressional Reconstruction (Radical Republicans). The result of the Lincoln Plan consisted of the population from the South (Confederates) being pardoned of all transgression against the North (Union) if they swore their allegiance to them and the allegiance allowed the state would…

Margaret Mitchell once described the Old South as “Gone with the Wind.” But in fact, Southerners found ways to keep it alive following the Civil War. Radical Republicans orchestrated Reconstruction in the South in order to rejoin the states, and guarantee equal rights to all freedmen. Reconstruction in the South ended abruptly when President Rutherford B. Hayes removed Federal troops from the South. The South, however, quickly reversed course, finding ways to return to their old ways.…

2) As time past the group began to evolve into a radical, racist, political organization with the intent to eradicate “Congressional Reconstruction”(McCaslin, pg 4) within the governmental system in the South, following the Civil War. Thus began their rise. The Klan memership overlapped with “all levels of white society,”(McCaslin pg 4) however the upper level class was most prominent making it an advantage for them to create a voice in…

Tilden had won the popular vote by small margin of 3 percent. However, the republicans controlled the electoral machinery in 3 of the irrecoverable southern states. The republicans threw out enough ballots belonging to the democrats to make Rutherford B. Hayes to clear winner of the election of 1876. When things were being sorted, both parties accused each other of fraud. Both parties did perform some action of fraud, the Republicans threw out ballots and the democrats did not allow freedmen to…

from potato famine.” (Page 614) Unemployment skyrocketed as working conditions became harsh to be in, as well as sickness started to drift into the continent. Citizens and liberals wanted their monarchies to be overthrown. Socialist was occupied by "radical, reforms including universal male suffering and social reform to ameliorate the conditions of the laboring poor." (Page 614) Some European countries were experiences a series of revolution, one right after another. Each revolution tried…