Wade-Davis Bill
If 10% of the voters took an oath of allegiance, the state would berestored to the Union.
The Whigs.
The South should be punished.
The South Should Be punished.
Deserved
They did not share the same goals on reconstruction
They did not share the same goals on Reconstruction
The Radical Republicans put the South under the control of the US Army to enforce the new laws. The civilian state governments that were partial to President Johnson, Democrats, and former Confederates were removed.
Both Lincoln and Johnson favored a lenient reconstruction. They believed the nation could best be served by leaving the brutality of the Civil War behind quickly, while radical republicans argued that the South should be punished for starting the Civil War.
The political climate in Washington DC regarding Reconstruction was tumultuous, characterized by power struggles between the President and Congress. President Johnson's lenient Reconstruction policies clashed with the more radical approach favored by Congress, which led to political battles and impeachments. This period also witnessed the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments and the eventual imposition of military rule in the South.
they did not share the same goals on reconstruction
Bill Ayers is best known as a radical political activist and co-founder of the Weather Underground, a radical communist group. In recent years, he is most notable for the controversy surrounding his connections with then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama, which he has disavowed as a Republican campaign to paint Obama in a negative light by association.