The main difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction was the degree of leniency they afforded to former confederate states. Under Congressional Reconstruction, former confederate states would have to meet stricter demands, such as the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

They wanted to prevent the leaders of the confederacy from returning to power after the war, they wanted the republican party to become a powerful institution in the south, and they wanted the federal government to help african americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing their rights to vote in the south.

The Radical Republican plan was considered radical because it involved completely reforming and re-creating Southern society. To accomplish this, the US Army had to occupy many Southern states in order to protect the newly freed Black population and ensure their right to vote.

After the election of November 6, 1866, Congress imposes its own Reconstruction policies, referred to by historians as “Radical Reconstruction.” This re-empowers the Freedman’s Bureau and sets reform efforts in motion that will lead to the 14th and 15th Amendments, which, respectively, grant citizenship to all (male) …

Johnson’s plan wasn’t as willing to give as much freedom to newly free slaves as Lincolns was. Johnson wanted to give the land back to the south unlike the RR. Johnson’s plan gave less protection to freed slaves then the Radical Republican’s plan. Unlike the 10% plan, the plan they had wanted to punish the south.

Compare in detail the three Reconstruction Plans: Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan, Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan, and the Congressional Reconstruction Plan.

of War Edwin Stanton

The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln’s plan because they thought it too lenient toward the South. Radical Republicans believed that Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was not harsh enough because, from their point of view, the South was guilty of starting the war and deserved to be punished as such.

And while he did oversee the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery (a process Lincoln had started), Johnson also believed on principle that each state had the right to decide the best course of Reconstruction for itself. …

These measures included the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 14th Amendment, the Tenure of Office Act and the Army Appropriations Act.

In 1864, Johnson was a logical choice as running mate for Lincoln, who wished to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign; and became vice president after a victorious election in 1864.

The Confederate states would be required to uphold the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; swear loyalty to the Union; and pay off their war debt. Then they could re-write their state constitutions, hold elections, and begin sending representatives to Washington.

Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was based on a plan approved by Lincoln before his death, generally referred to as the Ten Percent Plan. Under this plan, a Confederate state would be readmitted to the Union if 10 percent of its voting citizens took a loyalty oath.

In May 1865, immediately following the assassination of President Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson and his administration created a plan for Reconstruction, which became known as Presidential Reconstruction. Here, several of the provisions of Johnson’s plan are laid out.

The Radical Republicans’ reconstruction offered all kinds of new opportunities to African Americans, including the vote (for males), property ownership, education, legal rights, and even the possibility of holding political office.

For President Andrew Johnson, a Southerner from Tennessee, Reconstruction had two major aims. First, Southern states had to create new governments that were loyal to the Union and that respected federal authority. Second, slavery had to be abolished once and for all.

However, Reconstruction failed by most other measures: Radical Republican legislation ultimately failed to protect former slaves from white persecution and failed to engender fundamental changes to the social fabric of the South. Reconstruction thus came to a close with many of its goals left unaccomplished.

Following Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson became president and inaugurated the period of Presidential Reconstruction (1865–67).

Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was pro-slavery throughout his career in the Senate and as the Military Governor of Tennessee. In 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson, a Democratic senator from Tennessee, as his Vice Presidential candidate.

In 1877, as part of a congressional bargain to elect Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president following the disputed 1876 presidential election, U.S. Army troops were withdrawn from the three states (South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida) where they remained. This marked the end of Reconstruction.