Question

Compare and contrast reconstruction plans of president Johnson and radical republicans

Answer 1

Reconstruction plans of President Johnson and Radical Republicans were different.

Explanation:

During reconstruction Abraham Lincoln proposed lenient plans to make southern states part of the union. He also decided to pardon the confederate state people except the leaders. Johnson took over the administration of the union after Lincoln got assassinated.

Johnson planned to grant amnesty to the southern states and return personal property of the southern states. According to his plan the southern states had to form their own state governments and write new state constitutions. The plan of republicans was not lenient as that of Johnson’s.

Johnson’s plan was not that appreciable in terms of the limited rights it granted former slaves. Radical republicans did not want to be gentle on the south. They wanted the southern states to be punished for causing the civil war.

The take of radicals on slavery was appreciable. They believed that former slaves should be given equal rights like the US people.