Question

Which of the following was one of the Radical Republicans’ main goals for Reconstruction?
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Responses

Radical Republicans wanted to give power back to the wealthy planters in the South.
Radical Republicans wanted to give power back to the wealthy planters in the South.

Radical Republicans wanted to ensure that the Fourteenth Amendment did not pass.
Radical Republicans wanted to ensure that the Fourteenth Amendment did not pass.

Radical Republicans wanted to keep President Johnson in office.
Radical Republicans wanted to keep President Johnson in office.

Radical Republicans wanted to guarantee freedmen were given the right to vote.
Radical Republicans wanted to guarantee freedmen were given the right to vote.
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Answer 1

Radical Republicans wanted to guarantee freedmen were given the right to vote.

They supported strong federal action during Reconstruction to secure civil and political rights for formerly enslaved people (including the 14th and 15th Amendments) and opposed restoring power to former slaveholding elites or keeping Andrew Johnson in office.