At the end of the civil war, radical republicans in congress had three main goals: to prevent the leaders of the confederacy from returning to power, to make the republican party a powerful political force in the south, and to

-to prevent the leaders of the confederacy from returning to power,

- to make the republican party a powerful political force in the south,

- african americans achieve political equality.

assuming that by westerners you mean americans. that they were mean and controlling and abusive to its peasants.

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