RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Radical Republicans and carpetbaggers
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Northern Democrats and Ku Klux Klan members
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Southern Democrats and supporters of the Black Codes
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Confederate Veterans and supporters of President Andrew Johnson
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which two groups most helped the freedman during the Reconstruction Era? Radical Republicans and carpetbaggers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Following Lincoln’s assassination and particularly during the Andrew Johnson’s presidency, the Radical Republicans largely influenced the direction of Reconstruction.
Detailed explanation-3: -White southern Republicans, known to their enemies as “scalawags, ” made up the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.