Blog post #3

Before the Civil War, Eric Foner explains, the Republicans celebration was once upon a time of increasing federal authority over states. During the conflict and then the reconstruction, a robust central authority was seen as essential to outlining the phrases by which the defeated southern states should return to the union and to implement those conditions. Eric Foner shows how the growth of federal authority at the time was radical thinking and the wing of the Republican Party that recommended it at times at odds with average and conservative party members. For example, in an article by Eric Foner, he shows that reconstruction radicalism was primarily a bourgeois ideology based on the definition of American citizenship. There was an independent or uniform radical position on the economic issues of the time (Eric Foner 106). This quote illustrates that the idea that reconstruction radicalism is the main idea of ​​American citizenship. Also about the radicalism of rebuilding American citizenship. Radical Republicanism, for example, had a social and economic vision, but one that derived from the ideology of free labor rather than a range of business interests (Eric Foner 106). The section on the fourteenth amendment has enhanced my knowledge of the various clauses in the amendment. The first clause does not allow states to curtail anyone’s equality. The second allows all men to vote, so the southern states benefit from greater representation. The male part of the clause did not help the feminist and felt betrayed.