Editing Radical Republicans (section)

===Opposing Lincoln===
[[File:Hwdavis.jpg|frame|right|[[Henry Winter Davis]], one of the authors of the [[Wade–Davis Bill|Wade–Davis Manifesto]] opposing Lincoln's "[[Ten percent plan|ten percent]]" reconstruction plan]]
The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's terms for reuniting the United States during [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] (1863), which they viewed as too lenient. They proposed an "[[ironclad oath]]" that would prevent anyone who supported the Confederacy from voting in Southern elections, but Lincoln blocked it and once Radicals passed the [[Wade–Davis Bill]] in 1864, Lincoln vetoed it. The Radicals demanded a more aggressive prosecution of the war, a faster end to slavery and total destruction of the Confederacy. After the war, the Radicals controlled the [[Joint Committee on Reconstruction]].