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Rebuild (Johnson's Plan (the president retained the power to grant…
Rebuild
Johnson's Plan
the president retained the power to grant individual pardons to "disloyal" Southerners which was an escape clause for the wealthy planters
Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy.
provided for the loss of the right to vote and hold office of all former leaders and officeholders of the confederacy and confederates with more than $20,000 in taxable property
many Northerners believed Johnson's plan deserved a chance to succeed. The course followed by Southern state governments under Presidential Reconstruction, however, turned most of the North against Johnson's policy.
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Compromise of 1877
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As a result of the so-called Compromise of 1877 (or Compromise of 1876), Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, effectively marking the end of the Reconstruction era.
in return, he would immediately end federal support for the Republicans in the South and support the building of a southern transcontinental railroad
resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election between Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden and Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Lincoln's plan
a state government could be reestablished and accepted as legitimate by the U.S. president as soon as at least 10% of the voters in the state took the loyalty oath
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full presidential pardons would be granted to most Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the union and the U.S. Constitution, and accepted the emancipation of slaves
Lincoln was for reconstructing the state governments in the south so that Unionists were in charge rather than secessionists
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