Question

Overview of the Three Plans for Reconstruction

President Lincoln-To end slavery, bring Southerners into the Union, and punish only the Confederate leadership.
Congress
(Radical Republicans)-To take vengeance upon the South and provide equal rights to the freedmen.
Johnson- To bring the common farmer to power in the South, forgive Confederate officials and reunite the two sides, without equal rights for blacks.

In which way were Johnson’s plan and Congress’s plan different?
A. Congress wanted to charge Confederate officials with treason.
B. Johnson wanted to be tougher on the Confederate leadership.
C. Johnson wanted freed slaves to have civil rights in the South.
D. Congress wanted freed slaves to migrate to states in the North.

Answer 1

There were two different approaches to Reconstruction. Presidential Reconstruction was the approach that promoted more leniency towards the South regarding plans for readmission to the Union. Congressional Reconstruction blamed the South and wanted retribution for causing the Civil War.