Question

What did the Radical Republicans believe?


That the South needed to be punished for seceding and causing the war


That the North needed to break away


That the South should form the Confederacy


That the South needed to forgiven

Answer 1

The Radical Republicans believed that the South needed to be punished for seceding and causing the Civil War. They advocated for strong measures to ensure civil rights for freed slaves and to reshape Southern society after the war. They sought to impose strict conditions on the Southern states' reintegration into the Union and were generally opposed to lenient policies toward former Confederates.