They believed that his reconstruction plan, the 10% Plan, was too lenient on the former Confederate States. His plan concluded that only 10% of a state's population had to pledge allegiance with the U.S. to gain statehood again. They believed that the Freedmen population, who would gain their right to vote, would fill the 10% needed to gain statehood and the original seceders would not be the ones pledging.
These Republicans believed the plan was too lenient on the south, and they thought the south deserved punishment.
Lincoln's plan aroused the sharp opposition of the radicals in Congress, who believed it would simply restore to power more?
Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for committing Treason.
because there were no slaves involved
They wanted to punish the south
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Deserved
radical Republicans rejected the plan as too lenient
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They strongly disliked it because ther felt it was too leniant on the South.
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The provisions of Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction were incorporated into a peace convention, which the Radical Republicans and the officers of the federal government found too much favourable towards the former Confederate States. In few words they thought that the war had not been fought to end in what it would have meant a virtual recognition of Southern sovereignty.
They didn't agree that the Southern states should be allowed into the Union so quickly and that they should pay for what they did.
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It Put Them In Conflict With President Johnson (: .Tara Elizabeth Douglas <3
Radical Republicans in congress had enough votes to override or defeat ,both vetoes, and the bills became law.
Deserved
radical Republicans rejected the plan as too lenient
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