Question

What was the difference between radical reconstruction and presidential reconstruction?

Answer 1

Presidential reconstruction was that proposed by Lincoln after the civil war. It was fairly conservative and very moderate. It provided amnesty to all of a state (excluding high ranking confederate officers) if 10% of the population agreed to say slavery was bad. After Lincoln was assassinated by a southern and his successor, Johnson, was bad, the Senate, run by Republicans, became radical. They changed the plan to make the South suffer more.