Back جمهوريون راديكاليون Arabic Radikale Republikaner German Radical Republicans English Républicain radical French הרפובליקנים הרדיקלים HE Repubblicani radicali Italian 急進派共和党 Japanese 공화당 급진파 Korean Radykalni Republikanie Polish Republicanos Radicais Portuguese
Radical Republicans | |
|---|---|
| Leader(s) | • John C. Frémont • Benjamin Wade • Henry Winter Davis • Charles Sumner • Thaddeus Stevens • Hannibal Hamlin • Ulysses S. Grant |
| Founded | 1854 |
| Dissolved | 1877 |
| Merged into | Republican Party |
| Succeeded by | Stalwart faction of the Republican Party |
| Ideology | Radicalism Abolitionism[1] Pro-Reconstruction[2] Unconditional Unionism Developmentalism[3] Free labor ideology[4] |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
The Radical Republicans were a political faction of American politicians within the Republican Party. They existed from 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals.". They were opposed during the war by the Moderate Republicans (led by Abraham Lincoln).[5] One of the fears of the radicals was that if Northern and Southern Democrats came back together again as they had before the Civil War the Republican party would no longer be the dominant political party.[5]
- ↑ "Radical Republican". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
Radical Republican, during and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.
- ↑ "The Radical Republicans". battlefields.org. American Battlefield Trust. 30 June 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
As the end of the war drew near, the Radicals strongly disagreed with President Lincoln's proposed post-war Reconstruction plans. Whereas Lincoln wanted to peacefully recreate coexistence between the Union and the Confederate States, the Radical Republicans felt that the rebel states needed a strong hand of justice and the administration of harsh punishments for their actions.
- ↑ Foner, pp. 44, 429
- ↑ Foner, p. 26
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nelson Klose; Robert F. Jones, United States History to 1877 (Hauppauge, NY: Barron's, 1994), p. 257