RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Democrats
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Radical Republicans
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Suffragists
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Progressives
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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: -White southern Republicans, known to their enemies as “scalawags, ” made up the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures.
Detailed explanation-3: -Radical Republican leaders included Henry Winter Davis (1817–65), Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Benjamin Butler.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Radical Republicans’ most important measures were contained in the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868, which placed the Southern states under military government and required universal manhood suffrage.