Which of the following individuals or groups would have supported this quote?

The excerpt below was written in 1865:
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed....How can republican institutions, free schools, free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of twenty thousand acre manors with lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited by "low white trash?"

A. Democrats
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Andrew Johnson
D. Radical Republicans

I want to rule out Abraham Lincoln... but other than that I'm pretty stuck

Question

Which of the following individuals or groups would have supported this quote?

The excerpt below was written in 1865:
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed....How can republican institutions, free schools, free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of twenty thousand acre manors with lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited by "low white trash?"

A. Democrats
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Andrew Johnson
D. Radical Republicans

I want to rule out Abraham Lincoln... but other than that I'm pretty stuck

zale101 · Answer

Take a look at where it's written, "were radical motivated primarily by idealistic or humanitarian" http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2716569?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104374688831 The answer must be, the radical republicans.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you very much!!! :D