reconstruct the United States. After the assassination of President Lincoln,

Congress and President Johnson had to answer two questions, did the South leave

the Union and if they did leave, should the United States punish them for

treason? President Lincoln and President Johnson promised easy terms of

reintegration into United States. Radical Republicans in the Congress wanted the

South punished for leaving the Union and causing the Civil War.

President Lincoln's plan was to offer amnesty to Confederates taking the loyalty

oath; if ten percent of voters took the oath, statehood was re-established.

President Lincoln's major goal was to strength the Republican Party in the

South. President Johnson's plan was for Confederate leaders and wealthy

Southerners to ask presidential permission to take the loyalty oath. The

Southern would have to approve the Thirteenth Amendment. The Congressional plan

was to treat the south as a conquered territory by establishing military

governors to rule the Southern states and requiring the majority of it's

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