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Explain how the quotation below illustrates the Radical Republicans’ approach to Reconstruction.

Be sure to use key vocabulary, details, and examples in your response. Your response should be a minimum of three sentences in length.

"We hold it to be the duty of the Government to inflict condign [fitting] punishment on the rebel belligerents [fighters] .. . . The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. . . ."

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MsEleanor

The quote demonstrates the idea that the South needed to be punished for their action of secession and warfare in addition, the government must take charge of the process to change and rebuild the South.

This was done through military occupation of the South and creation of occupation zones. The New South program brought industry to urban areas of the South to diversify the southern economy. The government required the acceptance of the Thirteenth Amendment meaning the South had to release slaves and end the practice. The Freedman's Bureau aided former slavers in obtaining land and their new rights as citizens. The Radical Republicans required states to write new Constitutions and perform loyalty pledges to return to the US as a full state.

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The quotation above is in line with the way the Radical Republicans approached Reconstruction because it showed how they:

  • Punished the leaders of the Confederacy
  • Tried to change the racial sociocultural nature of the South

The Radical Republicans were of the opinion that the leaders of the Confederacy should be punished for their treasonous act of secession. To this end, when the leaders were elected to represent the Southern states in Congress, the Radical Republicans refused to let them take their position.

They blocked these representatives until other representatives were voted including Black Americans and Republicans.

They also saw the Reconstruction era as a time to force change on the South such that they would stop being racist. To this end, the Radical Republicans:

  • Passed the Civil Rights Bill
  • Pushed for the 14th and 15th Amendments
  • Established the Freedman's Bureau to help Black Americans economically.

In conclusion, the Radical Republicans used the Reconstruction Era to try to help the Black people and change the way the South did things.

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