Question

How did Andrew Johnson try to influence Reconstruction?

Answer 1

Andrew Johnson implemented the plan of reconstruction that gave the white south a a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to politics of the south. The end of the civil war found nation without a settled reconstruction policy

Answer 2

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