Question

Worth 20 points Xd

Answer 1

What are two things the Radical Republicans insisted be part of their Reconstruction plan?

1. Each state would have a republican form of government.
2. Every citizen would be properly represented in government.

• The Radical Republicans wanted to punish Southerners and slaveowners for causing the Civil War, so they would not have favored returning land to plantation owners.

Who suffered the most due to the lack of unity in the Federal government during the years of Reconstruction?

all people

• I suppose some might say Northerners suffered most because so much attention was focused on the South and on Reconstruction.  It's possible that's what your lesson says.  But I would argue that all people suffered from the failures of Reconstruction, because it allowed entrenched systems of racism to persist, which continue to cause problems in the country even to this day.

In what ways did self-serving individuals hurt the Reconstruction effort?

1. They misused government tax dollars.
2. They accepted bribes and overspent money.

• Self-serving means they were in it for themselves, and did things underhandedly to benefit themselves as individuals.