May be he wanted to help the slave a little bit more
US President Lincoln had planned generous conditions for the Reconstruction Era for the former Confederate states. His assassination in 1865, negated these generous terms and the radical wing of the Republican Party set about to punish the South severely.
the rivial plan proposed by congress to president Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was the Wade-Davis Bill. It was vetoed.
Andrew Johnson became President of the United States in April 1865, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He proposed his own Reconstruction plan just a few months later, in May 1865.
President Lincoln actually thought he should be responsible for reconstruction. President Lincoln did this because people left the union so the president could pardon them back in.
In December of 1863 President Lincoln announced to the US Congress his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. He laid out plans for Rebel states to reenter the Union in a generous manner.
After the death of President Lincoln, the then Vice-President Andrew Johnson became President. He decided to not follow Lincoln's plan of reconstruction of the South, opting to create his own.
President Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln proposed lenient terms for Reconstruction.
Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln
The states in the South had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.