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. . . ."
Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, September, 1865

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