Radical Republicans ensure the rights of African Americans Reconstruction Amendments abolishment of slavery full citizenship to Americans of African descent suffrage for adult Black men the South Reconstruction slavery
"Radical Republicans" in the federal government made it their goal to oversee the rebuilding of the South and to ensure the rights of African Americans, and the so-called Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution guaranteed the abolishment of slavery, full citizenship to Americans of African descent, and suffrage for adult Black men.