<P> By 1866, the Radical Republicans supported federal civil rights for Freedmen, which Johnson opposed . By 1867, they defined terms for suffrage for freed slaves and limited early suffrage for many ex Confederates . While Johnson opposed the Radical Republicans on some issues, the decisive Congressional elections of 1866 gave the Radicals enough votes to enact their legislation over Johnson's vetoes . Through elections in the South, ex Confederate officeholders were gradually replaced with a coalition of freedmen, Southern whites (called scalawags) and Northerners who had resettled in the South (called carpetbaggers). The Radical Republicans impeached Andrew Johnson in the House, but failed by one vote in the Senate to remove him from office . </P> <P> The Radicals were opposed by former slaveowners and white supremacists in the rebel states . Radicals were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan, who shot to death one Radical Congressman from Arkansas, James M. Hinds . </P> <P> The Radical Republicans led the Reconstruction of the South . All Republican factions supported Ulysses Grant for President in 1868 . Once in office, Grant forced Sumner out of the party and used Federal power to try to break up the Ku Klux Klan organization . However, insurgents and community riots continued harassment and violence against African Americans and their allies into the early 20th century . By the 1872 presidential election, the Liberal Republicans thought that Reconstruction had succeeded and should end . Many moderates joined their cause as well as Radical Republican leader Charles Sumner . They nominated New - York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who was also nominated by the Democrats . Grant was easily reelected . </P> <P> In state after state in the South, the Redeemers movement seized control from the Republicans until only three Republican states were left in 1876: South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana . Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes announced that he favored restoring "home rule" in these states, provided they promised to respect the rights of the freedmen . When Hayes became President in 1877, he ordered the removal of federal troops and Redeemers took over in these states as well . As white Democratic - dominated state legislatures regained power and Congressional efforts to reconstruct the south faded, in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period Jim Crow laws were enacted to limit the civil rights of former slaves . </P>

What goals did the radical republicans have for reconstruction