how did the radical republicans plan for reconstruction differ from johnsons plan?

Answer 1

The radical republicans wanted to punish the South, while President Andrew Johnson wanted a more lenient reconstruction (which is what Lincoln desired). The radical republicans were very leery of Johnson, since Johnson was North Carolina born; a United States senator from Tennessee; and former vice president of the United States.
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Answer 2

Lincoln and Johnson had in mind the rapid re-assembly of the states back into the nation. The RadRepubs had the idea of rapidly enfranchising the new freedmen (much like all the present-day politicians anticipate the EngSpanglish voters). The President thought he had War Powers to enforce his vision. Congress argued the war was over.

The opportunists swooped through the South thinking they could get easy pickings. This harsh activity created a backlash that quickly made the South solid Democrat.

Answer 3

Lincoln's plan, before his death, was that the defeated states were to be placed back into normal situation with the USC when 10% of the pre-war population eligible to vote had approved a new state constitution outlawing slavery, when such a state constitution was drawn up, then they would have met the requirements to be allowed participation in our government.

When Johnson was VP, he was an ardent Unionist and despised the old world hypocrisy of the aristocratic south and wanted to punish them for their treason. When he became President, he took visits from some of these aristocrats and they started to flatter him and he quickly softened and was granting near blanket pardons in order for ex-confeds to resume their place in politics both in their home states and in the US govt.

While Congress was away, Johnson gave sweeping pardons and allowed states to draw up constitutions which did not guarantee protection of the ex-slaves. When Congress returned, they were met with Senators and Congressmen who only a year before were trying to destroy the country and not wanted a place in the leading of it.

Congress has the right to police its own membership as guaranteed under the USC. Article 1, section 5, clause 1:

"Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members,..."

So, no matter if Lincoln was alive to institute a reconstruction plan, the FINAL say on actual reconstruction would have belonged to Congress, not the President. Lincoln, would have of course, more political leverage to bargain with Congress for a more lenient policy, but in the end, Congress had the higher authority.

And you can call them radical republicans, if you wish to use the derogatory term placed upon them by southern apologists and revisionists, but the fact remains that they wanted the states to not only adopt the 13th amendment(abolishing slavery), but the 14th(citizenship for all people) and 15th(voting rights for non whites) amendments as well.

Unless;, you believe that slavery is a good thing, or that all citizens of this country do not deserve all of the freedoms guaranteed under the USC like DUE PROCESS or if you think that minorities should not be allowed to vote; then you should see what that Congress did as an advancement upon not only American Civil Rights, but Human rights. The bad mouthing of that Congress was done by racists who wanted a return to their own dominant position in society and was a cancer that needed to be excised from the rule of law of our country.

The radical reactionaries were the former slave owners, the racist idiots, the kkk, who wanted to abolish all attempts to political rights for blacks and other minorities in both the north and the south.

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Answer 4

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