The first plan of action was established by the President of that time, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. He had many thoughts and ideas to make the country better. Even though he was from Tennessee he was against slavery and looked forward to see it be abolished. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction of the country was to ultimately restore the Union. His first action was to offer amnesty to all Southerners that would pledge their loyalty to the country, but the only way the state would be able to be reinstated was if ten percent of their voters took this oath during the presidential election of 1860. His second step was to help the

Now that Johnson was out of power the Republicans had a chance to put someone that would help them into office. The Radicals choose General Ulysses S. Grant, a big portion of the carpetbag government supported him who helped but in the most part he won by a landslide. Now that the Radical’s won the election didn’t mean that they were in complete power, the Compromise of 1877 ended the Radical Reconstruction.

“It is not proposed merely that they shall govern themselves, but that they shall rule the white race, make and administer State Laws, elect President and members of Congress, and shape to a greater or less extent the future destiny of the whole country. Would such a trust and power be safe in such hands?”

newly freed African Americans, to do this he encouraged all that could read and write or that served in the army to vote.

President Johnson didn’t start his presidency off too well. He had a bad reputation; he was a former Democrat, and a former slaveholder. In his third annual message, he didn’t really please the North too much. His opinions toward black suffrage didn’t seem like he had the same views as anyone in the North. In a passage talking about how the government would be handle according to African Americans he said:

The Reconstruction of the Union was a very hard process; it took a lot of work to complete. There were many great ideas and strategies. I think the best

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