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How was Johnson's goal for Reconstruction different from that of Republicans in Congress?

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Democrat, Andrew Johnson was sympathetic to the South and wanted to remove many of the penalties against secession the Republicans had put forward. He had no sympathy for blacks either and one of his first moves was to virtually gut the Freedmen's Bureau of all its power. Basically, Johnson wanted to restore the property to the plantation owners, remove any restrictions and remove federal troops from the South. The Republicans wanted to make sure the rights of the newly freed former slaves were protected, to punish the secessionists, and provide steps for acceptance back into the Union (these varied according depending on whether it was Republicans or Radical Republicans).

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