USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Radical Republicans were a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction. They were led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives and Charles Sumner in the Senate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Radical Republican, during and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.

Detailed explanation-3: -During Reconstruction, the Republican Party in the South represented a coalition of Black people (who made up the overwhelming majority of Republican voters in the region) along with “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags, ” as white Republicans from the North and South, respectively, were known.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Radical Republicans led the Reconstruction of the South. All Republican factions supported Ulysses Grant for president in 1868.

Detailed explanation-5: -Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for starting the war. They also wanted to be sure new governments in the southern states would support the Republican Party.