The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans' aims was:

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While all of these aims were important to the Radical Republicans, land reform was the most ambitious and least successful. The Radical Republicans believed that land redistribution could help solve many of the problems facing both white and black farmers in the South, including poverty, debt, and lack of political power. However, their attempts to pass land reform legislation were largely unsuccessful, and the idea never gained widespread support. Black suffrage, federal protection of civil rights, and public education were all achieved to varying degrees through the Reconstruction amendments and other legislation.

The Most Ambitious, but Least Successful, of the Radical Republicans