Explain how the quotation below illustrates the radical republicans’ approach to reconstruction. be sure to use key vocabulary, details, and examples in your response. your response should be a minimum of three sentences in length. "we hold it to be the duty of the government to inflict condign [fitting] punishment on the rebel belligerents [fighters] .. . the whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. . "

The quote demonstrates the idea that the South needed to be punished for their action of secession and warfare in addition, the government must take charge of the process to change and rebuild the South.

This was done through military occupation of the South and creation of occupation zones. The New South program brought industry to urban areas of the South to diversify the southern economy. The government required the acceptance of the Thirteenth Amendment meaning the South had to release slaves and end the practice. The Freedman's Bureau aided former slavers in obtaining land and their new rights as citizens. The Radical Republicans required states to write new Constitutions and perform loyalty pledges to return to the US as a full state.

listed the works which were

banned by the church=index librorum prohibitorum

questioned many tenets

of the catholic church=

martin luther’s

ninety-five

theses

an authoritative treatise

on witchcraft=mallets maleficarum

a set of meditation, prayer, and

contemplation exercises to

strengthen one’s relationship

with god=spiritual exercises

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