USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln’s terms for reuniting the United States during Reconstruction (1863), which they viewed as too lenient.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Radicals were known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Blacks, and their strong opinions on post-war Reconstruction. They were also critical towards many policies of both President Abraham Lincoln and his successor, Andrew Johnson.

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 believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites. They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-5: -scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.