What is Radical Republicans?
{{Infobox political party | colorcode = #CF1021 | name = Radical Republicans | leader1_title = Leader(s) | leader1_name = • [[John C. Frémont]]<br>• [[Benjamin Wade]]<br>• [[Henry Winter Davis]]<br>• [[Charles Sumner]]<br>• [[Thaddeus Stevens]]<br>• [[Hannibal Hamlin]]<br>• [[Ulysses S. Grant]] | foundation = [[History of the Republican Party (United States)#Beginnings: 1854–1860|1854]] | dissolution = [[Compromise of 1877|1877]] | successor = [[Stalwarts (politics)|Stalwart]] faction of the [[History of the Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] | merged = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] | ideology = [[Radicalism (historical)|Radicalism]]<br>[[Abolitionism in the United States|Abolitionism]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Radical Republican|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Radical-Republican|access-date=June 13, 2022|website=britannica.com|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|quote=Radical Republican, during and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.|language=en-US}}</ref><br>{{nowrap|[[Reconstruction era|Pro-Reconstruction]]}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=30 June 2021|title=The Radical Republicans|url=https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/radical-republicans|access-date=June 13, 2022|website=battlefields.org|publisher=American Battlefield Trust|quote=As the end of the war drew near, the Radicals strongly disagreed with President Lincoln’s proposed post-war Reconstruction plans. Whereas Lincoln wanted to peacefully recreate coexistence between the Union and the Confederate States, the Radical Republicans felt that the rebel states needed a strong hand of justice and the administration of harsh punishments for their actions.|language=en-US}}</ref><br>[[Union (American Civil War)|Unconditional Unionism]]<br>[[Developmentalism]]<ref>Foner, pp. 44, 429</ref><br>Free