Radical Republicans wanted equal rights for freedmen (freed black slaves), and they also wanted a tougher stance against the South.
They did not like his reconstruction plan
they welcome his plan.
Johnson and the Radicals came into conflict because the Radical Republicans wanted a different reconstruction plan then Johnson did.
The reconstruction plans sought by the Radical Republicans were designed to punish the South for the US Civil War. US President Johnson, who battled with the Radicals, had a more lenient plan for reuniting the North and the South.
The Radical Republicans had a plan for Reconstruction which involved giving full citizenship rights to freed African Americans. They greatly opposed President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction, and eventually had him impeached for refusing to carry out laws passed by Congress. He was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
The reconstruction plan that had won was the Andrew Johnson's Plan.
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan and the Radical Republicans in Congress Reconstrucion plan
reconstruction acts and 10% plan
presidential reconstruction
The 10 Percent Plan was the title of Lincoln's plan for the South's recovery from from the war.
Lincoln believed in forgiveness for the south, while the radicals wanted to punish them. While Lincoln only wanted 10 percent voters to pledge loyalty for a state to rejoin the union, the radicals wanted it to be 50. the radicals also didn't want to give any rights to the blacks.
He was impeached in 1868, mainly because of his opposition to the Radicals Republicans Reconstruction's Plan, particularly against the Fourteenth Amendment.