The best example of how Radical Republicans sought to achieve their goals is "working to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment." This amendment aimed to provide equal protection under the law for all citizens, which included ensuring civil rights for freedmen and thus supporting their right to vote.
Radical Republicans had two main goals. First, they wanted to break the power of wealthy planters who had long ruled the South. Second, they wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote. They used legislative reforms, or changes in laws, to achieve their goals. Which of the following is an example of how Radical Republicans sought to achieve their goals? (1 point) Responses ensuring that African Americans could outvote their former owners ensuring that African Americans could outvote their former owners working to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment working to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment denying wealthy planters the right to vote denying wealthy planters the right to vote developing a speedy process to readmit southern states to the Union
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