Reconstruction: 1865-1877
... Radical Republican group passed a bill • Required 50% of voters to take “iron clad oath” • of allegiance to the Union • Gave African Americans civil liberties • No voting rights ...
... Radical Republican group passed a bill • Required 50% of voters to take “iron clad oath” • of allegiance to the Union • Gave African Americans civil liberties • No voting rights ...
US History Assign 33
... 4) How would you describe Lincoln’s plan for the South returning to the Union? 5) Who assassinated Lincoln? 6) Who becomes President after Lincoln? (first and last name) 7) What were the two plans for Reconstruction called? Which one was implemented? 8) What group had the majority in Congress? 9) Wh ...
... 4) How would you describe Lincoln’s plan for the South returning to the Union? 5) Who assassinated Lincoln? 6) Who becomes President after Lincoln? (first and last name) 7) What were the two plans for Reconstruction called? Which one was implemented? 8) What group had the majority in Congress? 9) Wh ...
Reconstruction
... • Johnson opposed equal rights for African Americans • He fired his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who was a friend of the Radicals • May 1868, Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by only one vote ...
... • Johnson opposed equal rights for African Americans • He fired his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who was a friend of the Radicals • May 1868, Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by only one vote ...
RECONSTRUCTION definition: putting something back together
... Leaders like President Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson wished to take it easy on the South so that they would peacefully rejoin the Union without too much resentment. ...
... Leaders like President Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson wished to take it easy on the South so that they would peacefully rejoin the Union without too much resentment. ...
Hiram Rhodes Revels
... "carpetbagger," the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates. The opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values of their southern heritage. ...
... "carpetbagger," the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates. The opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values of their southern heritage. ...
Radical Republican
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves ""Radicals"" and were opposed during the war by the Moderate Republicans (led by Abraham Lincoln), by the Conservative Republicans, and by the pro-slavery Democratic Party. After the war, the Radicals were opposed by self-styled ""conservatives"" (in the South) and ""liberals"" (in the North). Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for the former rebels, and emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for freedmen (recently freed slaves).During the war, Radical Republicans often opposed Lincoln in terms of selection of generals (especially his choice of Democrat George B. McClellan for top command) and his efforts to bring states back into the Union. The Radicals passed their own reconstruction plan through Congress in 1864, but Lincoln vetoed it and was putting his own policies in effect when he was assassinated in 1865. Radicals pushed for the uncompensated abolition of slavery, while Lincoln wanted to pay slave owners who were loyal to the Union. After the war, the Radicals demanded civil rights for freedmen, such as measures ensuring suffrage. They initiated the Reconstruction Acts, and limited political and voting rights for ex-Confederates. They bitterly fought President Andrew Johnson; they weakened his powers and attempted to remove him from office through impeachment, which failed by one vote. The Radicals were vigorously opposed by the Democratic Party and often by moderate and Liberal Republicans as well.