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lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
President Lincoln seemed to favor self-Reconstruction by the states with little assistance from Washington. To appeal to poorer whites, he offered topardonall Confederates; to appeal to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats, he pledged to protect private property. Unlike Radical Republicans in Congress, Lincoln did not want to punish southerners or reorganize southern society. His actions indicate that he wanted Reconstruction to be a short process in which secessionist states could draft new constitutions as swiftly as possible so that the United States could exist as it had before. But historians can only speculate that Lincoln desired a swift reunification, for his assassination in 1865 cut his plans for Reconstruction short.Source- Sparknotes.com-american reconstruction.
punish by killing them
It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and pledged to abide by emancipation. The next step would be formal erection of a state government. Lincoln would then recognize the purified regime.
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Andrew Johnson wanted to punish the Southerners during Reconstruction. However, Lincoln was against this tactic and chose a more diplomatic approach.
Punish the South
lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
Because Andrew Johnson wanted easy terms for the south but the congress wanted to punish the south.
Many hoped to punish the South for Booth's crime.
yes because they wanted to punish the southmany complained that the souths newly elected leaders were theh same people that led the confederacy.
President Abraham Lincoln supported the Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction because he wanted to mend ties with the former Confederate states, not punish them further.
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President Johnson's early ties to the south influence his treatment of African Americans in his Reconstruction plans because he wanted to punish the slaveholders. Because of this people thought Johnson would create a harch plan but instead he gave states control.
President Andrew Johnson plan of reconstruction was based upon a desire to punish the southern states for causing so much bloodshed and suffering during the war The radical Republicans who had the majority in the Congress.
What to do with the slaves (now that they are homeless and jobless) and how to punish the South (radical view) or readmit them into the Union with consequences.
Because my grandma was there