Question

List three main parts of Johnson's reconstruction plan

Answer 1

In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. The conduct of the governments he established turned many Northerners against the president's policies.

The end of the Civil War found the nation without a settled Reconstruction policy.

In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these later received individual pardons), and authorized them to create new governments.

Blacks were denied any role in the process. Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy.

Parts:

- gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedomand offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

-offered a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these later received individual pardons), and authorized them to create new governments.

-Blacks were denied any role in the process. Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy.

Answer 2

The three main parts of the Presidential Reconstruction plan of 1865 included these:

• It was required for a former Confederate state to abolish slavery for it to be readmitted into the Union.
• Former Confederate states were to swear loyalty to the Union.
• Pardons would not be available for Confederate officials owning property that cost more than twenty thousand dollars.