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Johnson's Plan
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.
Blacks were denied any role in the process. Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy
The apparent inability of the South's white leaders to accept the reality of emancipation undermined Northern support for Johnson's policies.
Blacks were denied any role in the process. Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy.
Radical Reconstruction
The Radical Republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.
They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War.
Moderate Republicans were appalled at Johnson's racism. They joined with the Radicals to overturn Johnson's Civil Rights Act veto. This marked the first time in history that a major piece of legislation was overturned.
Congress began the task of Reconstruction by passing the First Reconstruction Act in March 1867. Also known as the Military Reconstruction Act or simply the Reconstruction Act,
Lincoln's Plan
Because Lincoln believed that the South had never legally seceded from the Union, his plan for Reconstruction was based on forgiveness.
Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an Oath Of Allegiance to the Union.
President Lincoln seemed to favor self-Reconstruction by the states with little assistance from Washington. To appeal to poorer whites, he offered to Pardon all Confederates; to appeal to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats, he pledged to Protect Private Property.
Most moderate Republicans in Congress supported the president’s proposal for Reconstruction because they wanted to bring a quick end to the war.
Compromise of 1811
By the 1870s, support was waning for the racially egalitarian policies of Reconstruction, as many southern whites had resorted to intimidation and violence to keep blacks from voting and restore white supremacy in the region.
Beginning in 1873, a series of Supreme Court decisions limited the scope of Reconstruction-era laws and federal support for the so-called Reconstruction Amendments
14th and 15th, which gave African Americans the status of citizenship and the protection of the Constitution, including the all-important right to vote.