RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Lincoln had wanted voting rights for African Americans.
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Their constituents pressured representatives to ensure that Union soldiers had not died in vain.
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Freedmen counted towards congressional seats, giving Southern states more power.
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Republicans knew that freed African Americans would side with Southern leaders in elections.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Radical Republicans believed that African Americans deserved immediate freedom from bondage and should receive the same rights as whites. Radical Republicans favored granting civil rights to African Americans for various reasons. Some radicals truly believed that African Americans were equals to the whites.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Radicals felt strongly that the Confederates needed to be punished for their pro-slavery views and should only be readmitted to the Union after they had abolished slavery among other conditions. They believed that government intervention in states was necessary to ensure abolition and civil rights for Blacks.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two goals of the Radical Republicans were to prevent former Confederates from regaining control over southern politics and to protect the freedmen and guarantee them the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -They opposed allowing ex-Confederate officers to retake political power in the Southern U.S., and emphasized equality, civil rights and voting rights for the “freedmen", i.e., former slaves who had been freed during or after the Civil War by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.