“…must revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners ... The foundations of their institutions ... must be broken up and relaid, or all our blood and treasure have been spent in vain."
– Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Radical Republican
Consider the quotation given in the box above and determine which of the following answer choices best describes the actions Thaddeus Stevens refers to.
The Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction
The Battle of Gettysburg
Secession