Question

What was one goal of the Radical Republicans Reconstruction plan? Question 3 options: A; To make sure a Republican was elected president after Andrew Johnson B; To reconcile the North and South into 1 Union C; To punish the South D; To make sure the South elected African American governors

Answer 1

The correct answer is C) To punish the South.

One goal of the Radical Republicans Reconstruction plan was to punish the South.

This group of Radical Republicans in Congress supported a much harsher reconstruction plan in the South was Radical Republicans.

After the Civil War, Lincoln supported a mild Reconstruction of the South. But not everyone agreed with this mild plan, some groups and voices disagreed and preferred a much harsher plan of Reconstruction in the former Confederate states. They were the Radical Republicans. Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives considered that the Southern states deserve a harsher plan for all the damaged they had caused with the Civil War.