Radical Republicans During The Civil War

     Radical Republicans wanted to enact a far-reaching transformation of Southern social and economic life, permanently ending the old planter class system, and favored granting freed slaves citizenship and voting rights. After the war, they came to believe whites in the South were seeking

They were opposed to the expansion of slavery and called for Congress to prevent the further expansion of slavery into new territories. They believed that by confining slavery to its current boundaries, it would gradually be eradicated. The formation of the Republican Party was one of the primary reasons of how the political landscape changed in the Union.

Soldiers of the American Civil War were overwhelmed by a time where weaponry and technological developments were thriving. This brutal war changed the soldiers, both mentally and physically, and continued to have an impact throughout their entire lives. There were not only many deaths during the war, but also prior to the war as many soldiers took their own life. They would experience disturbing thoughts and events in their mind that could not be explained until they became known as mental illnesses. The exploration of psychological disorders following the Civil War improved medical diagnostic tools and the way patients were treated which transformed the treatment of mental illness by creating new ways of discovering illnesses, treating patients, and developing the foundation for the future of psychology throughout America.

America is a new country. Here, the first time ever, a group of brave people cut out the bondage from Europe, free the philosophers, thinkers, also gave people desire to founding a new country. In the United States, human rights is the foundation for building this country. “I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual.” Read from the Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address. President Lincoln have put every effort to make The United States united together. At the time he had the First Inaugural Address on 1861, there were seven states announced separate from the United States. In his document, Lincoln had mention thirty-four times of the “constitution” and “unconstitutional”. The Constitution of the United States has been used as the central support material for his document.

The Civil War that occurred was one of the darkest times in our history as a country. It was a time where there was a complete breakdown of social and political systems. Hundreds of thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands more were aversely affected. However, it was also a time of remembrance and significant moral progress. It is remembered as the turning point in American History and would be the foundation for the Civil Rights movement many years later.

Reconstruction was a time of great change for the now-unified United States. It started in 1865, coinciding with the Union win of the Civil War. Reconstruction is defined as ‘the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.” This means that the Northern states were given the task of trying to decide what to do with the states that left the Union before the war. Deciding what to do with these states sparked lots of debate. So much debate that it split the northern population into different groups. Radical Republicans fought for the rights of freedmen and believed that South should pay for the damage they caused. The Radicals were not interested in taking the South back with open arms. One of the Radicals’ proposed laws was to take large chunks of ex-confederate land and sharing it with freed slaves and non-wealthy whites. With that being said, the majority of the Northern population were Moderate in their stance on Reconstructing. Moderates were not for the distributing of land to African-Americans in the South because they believed that blacks would get complacent and not want to contribute to the economy in their various states. They thought that blacks would eventually become socially equal to whites given time. Moderates assumed that going strongly against what the Southern Majority wants would hinder the Reconstruction of the U.S. The Confederate ideals were

1.Radical Republicans thought that African Americans should have every right that a White person had with the same political rights and the same opportunities. With an addition of Johnson being a dedicated defender of white supremacy and those of embattled white elites, including the he creation of Black codes, a major number of northerners and southern unionist wanted to reevaluate the purpose and direction of this policy. They wanted rights to be equal with both races and to those who were leads with the civil war to be punished not accepted into Congress

The Civil War brought an end to slavery. Reconstruction came with the hope of transforming the nation. For the Republicans, they had a vision that was building the nation. For example, they used preventive ways to create a new economic policy. Their second part was to reshape the former Confederacy and to explore the events in the West. Despite President Andrew Jackson’s political madness, Republicans believed in the vision and wanted to succeed with their reconstruction plans. Tariffs, the national banking system, and railroads went a long way to the growth of the nation.

During the reconstruction period after the Civil War Radical Republicans fought for the freedpeople on a political level. They believed that the blacks deserved the same freedom and political rights as the whites. The Radicals resonated closest with President Lincoln and his views which were similar, but not limited to his words in his second inaugural address; “let us strive to finish the work...to bind up the nation’s wounds.”1 The radicals had some similar views to the moderate Republicans, however, they took it a step farther and wanted to completely uproot the current economic and social system; “but most considered the South a new frontier to be conquered culturally, politically, and economically.”2 Their main objectives were to advocate suffrage and voting rights along with the redistribution of land to the freed slaves.

Although the Civil War ended, the country was faced with a new road of challenges. During the Reconstruction years, there were the Conservative and Radical Republicans. The Republican party was divided, in which the Conservatives and Radicals had very different visions of reuniting the South with the Union. At the beginning of the Reconstruction years, the Conservatives exhorted the South to accept the abolition of slavery but offered few other prerequisites for the readmission of the seceded states. In contrast, the Radicals strongly felt the civil and military leaders of the Confederacy be punished, that large numbers of Southern whites be denied the right to vote, that the rights of former slaves be protected, and that the property of wealthy

The radical Republicans is an American politician of the public’s sure know that they are more a party for the American in the publics of the world how white people are the leadership for this punished on the civil wars. During these civil wars they have believed that being a leader sure on their roles of American. In this world as this, white people have fed by government of lager of the roles of the fact by this state is it, when you have just noticed about how this law is it more like civil right bill in the world what right thing you would able to see can give a free-labor to protect on Friedman either of being working. As the south sure would know how equal right thing all together or can be go toward where they can build their own publics

In 1861, a horrific war began. Nobody had any idea that this war would become the deadliest war in American history. It wasn’t a regular war, it was a civil war opposing the Union in the North and the Confederate States in the South.. The Civil War cost many people’s lives on the battlefield and beyond. In addition it cost an extreme amount of money for the nation which possibly could have been avoided if the war had turned to happen a little differently.

The Significance of Radical Thought and Attitudes in the Civil War Period The Civil War caused turmoil and upheaval that affected every strand of life in England. It challenged and upturned the deeply ingrained feudal system with a Monarch as the head of all moral, spiritual and governmental life, and moved thought and order towards new democratic ideas and systems of rule. This period saw a new experimentation in ideas and attitudes among the population, which was not welcomed by many. As Christopher Hill writes "What was new in the 17 centaury was the idea that the world might be permanently turned upside down".

The American Civil War was a conflict over both political and ideological differences. A pervading sense of distinct regional identities lead to deeply rooted sectionalism and eventually, war. When war broke out in 1861, each side appeared to have certain advantages. However, victory was ultimately bestowed upon the North due to political, economic, and military factors.

Starting off as opposing beliefs, started a war between the states, also known as the Civil War. The Civil War was considered the first modern war. The Civil War had a big change in technology and changed attitudes in war. Some of the new technology that was used was rifled artillery, rifled gun, heavier artillery, improved communications, and the use of the railroads.