Why did many Northerners, including the Radical Republicans, believe the Southerners deserved to be punished.

 Many northerners believed that the Civil War was the Confederacy's fault. They believed that the Confederacy should pay for the confederacy like a country that been conquered.

Explanation:

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congress passed laws allowing for free passage between states.

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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