Question

Three specific elements of Johnson's Reconstruction

Answer 1

Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty oathNo pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20,000A state needed to abolish slavery before being readmittedA state was required to repeal its secession ordinance before being readmitted.Most of the seceded states began compliance with the president’s program. Congress was not in session, so there was no immediate objection from that quarter. However, Congress reconvened in December and refused to seat the Southern representatives.Reconstruction had produced another deadlock between the president and Congress.