What groups comprised the Republican Party in the South duri

What groups comprised the Republican Party in the South during Reconstruction? What motivated each group to support the Republicans? What were the accomplishments of the Republicans in the South and what were their failures?

Solution

Carpet baggers, the army, and freed blacks were the Republican Party during Reconstruction. All of these groups wanted white Southerners to pay for the Civil War.

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