Which faction of the Republican Party wanted Reconstruction to punish the former Confederacy, disenfranchise large numbers of Southern whites, and confiscate the property of leading Confederates?

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Answer:

The answer is: The Radicals

Explanation:

After the Civil War followed the rebuilding the United States.  There were many questions about how the Confederacy would be back into the Union? ,Would it be Congress or the President's decision to make?

Radicals came to power and they wanted to punish the South, and passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867.