Which two statements show the approach that radical republicans took toward reconstruction?

a. they joined hands with democrats to make effective policies for reconstructing the south.

b. they overrode any presidential veto that they felt did not support reconstruction.

c. they punished the former confederate states by not allowing them to rejoin the union.

d. they divided the union states into five districts to more easily manage reconstruction efforts.

e. they created harsher requirements for allowing former confederate states to rejoin the union.

The correct answers are B and E. Radical Republicans overrode any presidential veto that they felt did not support Reconstruction, and created harsher requirements for allowing former Confederate states to rejoin the Union.

Explanation:

The Radical Republicans formed an American political movement within the Republican Party from 1854 until the end of the Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves the "radicals" and were opposed during the war to the moderates and to the conservatives led by Abraham Lincoln and, after the war, to the ex-Confederate conservatives and the liberals of the Union.

Radical Republicans strongly opposed slavery during the war and subsequently mistrusted the former Confederates. They demanded harsh measures against the former rebels and insisted on the need to grant civil rights and the right to vote to freed slaves, in order to grant them the rights they were treating to assure, and as a way to put a limit to former Confederates.

confederacy: supported slavery, believed states should be able to nullify federal laws, supported low tariffs

union: everything else