Republican Party during Reconstruction

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Republican_Party_during_Reconstruction

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:activePeriod	1865-1877
gptkbp:associatedWith	gptkb:Radical_Republicans gptkb:Moderate_Republicans
gptkbp:baseOfSupport	gptkb:scalawags gptkb:carpetbaggers Northern states African Americans in the South
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dateEnacted	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875 gptkb:Enforcement_Acts
gptkbp:declinedAfter	gptkb:Compromise_of_1877
gptkbp:faced	gptkb:impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson corruption scandals resistance from Southern whites
gptkbp:foundIn	universal male suffrage economic modernization of the South public education in the South
gptkbp:goal	restore Southern states to the Union ensure rights for freed slaves rebuild the South
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Republican Party during Reconstruction
gptkbp:influencedBy	abolitionist movement Union victory in Civil War
gptkbp:keyLeaders	gptkb:Charles_Sumner gptkb:Thaddeus_Stevens gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant gptkb:Edwin_M._Stanton gptkb:Benjamin_Wade
gptkbp:legacy	expanded civil rights foundation for later civil rights movements
gptkbp:lostPowerInSouth	1877
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:Southern_Democrats gptkb:White_League gptkb:Redeemers Ku Klux Klan
gptkbp:president	gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant gptkb:Rutherford_B._Hayes
gptkbp:promotion	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866 gptkb:Freedmen's_Bureau gptkb:Reconstruction_Acts gptkb:14th_Amendment gptkb:15th_Amendment
gptkbp:supports	Reconstruction policies civil rights for freedmen
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:The_Facts_of_Reconstruction
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7