Question

Which was NOT a primary motivation for Republicans to promote Congressional Reconstruction over those policies proposed by Lincoln and Johnson?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "Radicals", with a goal of immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise. They were opposed during the War by the moderate Republicans (led by United States President Abraham Lincoln), by the conservative Republicans, and by the pro-slavery and anti-Reconstruction Democratic Party as well as by conservatives in the South and liberals in the North during Reconstruction. Radicals led efforts after the war to establish civil rights for former slaves and fully implement emancipation. After weaker measures in 1866 resulted in violence against former slaves in the rebel states, Radicals pushed the Fourteenth Amendment and statutory protections through Congress. They disfavored allowing ex-Confederates officers to retake political power in the South, and emphasized equality, civil rights and voting rights for the "freedpeople", i.e. people who had been enslaved by state slavery laws within the United States.[1]

Radical Republicans

Leader(s)

Senator John C. Frémont (Calif.)

Senator Charles Sumner (Mass.)

Representative Thaddeus Stevens (Pa.)

President Ulysses S. Grant (Ohio)

Founded

1854

Dissolved

1877

Merger of

Ex-Free Soilers

Succeeded by

Stalwarts

Ideology

Abolitionism

Reconstructionism

National affiliation

Republican Party

Politics of United States

Political parties

Elections

Answer 2

a) congress felt that reconstruction policy should be under its authority.

b) congressional leaders wanted to restore the union as quickly as possible.

c) congress wanted to punish the south for its crimes against the union.

d) congressional leaders wanted to keep southern states out of power.

ANSWER: b) congressional leaders wanted to restore the union as quickly as possible.

Explanation:

• For initiating the fight, the radical republicans decided to punish the South. They also sought to ensure that the Republican party was supported by new governments in the southern nations.
• The Republicans dominated the situation in the south by prohibiting whites from voting. They introduced a legislation which stated that if any southerner took part in the Union uprising,  they could not vote. This prohibited the majority of southern whites from voting for Democrats and against Republicans.
• Congress has also established strict rules on the reintegration of Southern states into the Union. It said any state wanted a new constitution to guarantee all black men's voting rights. So any southern state needs to enact a constitutional amendment that gives black citizenship.