Explain how the quotation below illustrates the Radical Republicans’ approach to Reconstruction. "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. . . ."

Translation: It is the government's job to punish the Confederate rebels...we must change the entire way of life for people in the South now or we will never have the opportunity again.

Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, September, 1865

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