Answer 1
because they disagreed with the confederate officers and so Lincoln & radical republicans compromise and work together.
Answer 2
There were two main reasons.
Firstly, the former Confederate Officers were men that had just finished committing treason against the Government of the United States. It would not make sense to give them immediate clemency.
Secondly, losing the war did not change their opinions on major issues such as Slavery, State Nullification, and several other issues. In order to create a viable Reconstruction program to implement the changes that the nation needed, Lincoln and the Radical Republicans needed to keep the former Confederates out.
Radical Republicans did not trust the former Confederates. They feared that the old Southern ruling class would return to power.
Lincoln refused to sign the Radical Republicans Reconstruction bill because he felt it was too harsh. His main consideration was to unify the country once more. He believed that placing heavy handed penalties on the former Confederate states would make the road to reconciliation difficult, if not impossible.
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.
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Radical Republicans wanted to oversee Reconstruction because they wanted to let the blacks have their equal rights that are stated in the Declaration of Independence.
The former Confederate States had never actually left the Union.
Lincoln did refuse to sign the Republicans' plan for reconstruction. Lincoln had developed his own plan which was more lenient toward the south.
The attemps of the Radical Republicans to control reconstruction policy were successful
He had a plan for Reconstruction very similar to Lincoln's. Johnson was impeached because the Republicans thought his plan made it too easy for the Confederate states to get back in the Union.
Lincoln refused to sign the Radical Republicans Reconstruction bill because he felt it was too harsh. His main consideration was to unify the country once more. He believed that placing heavy handed penalties on the former Confederate states would make the road to reconciliation difficult, if not impossible.
Lincoln proposed lenient terms for Reconstruction.
Lincoln wanted to mend the splits between the North and the South when the war ended. The first thing he planned to do was to have the former Confederate states concede that their rebellion was wrong and to rejoin the Union. Various steps were thought of by Lincoln to do this but his assassination ended his plans for reconstruction. This led to President Johnson's conflict with the Radical Republicans on Reconstruction.
It gave the way to enact their plan for the Reconstruction of the South, based upon the idea that the former Confederate States had to suffer all the consequences of their secession and the war they had lost.
the attempts of the radical Republicans to control Reconstruction policy were successful
the attempts of the radical Republicans to control Reconstruction policy were successful
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan and the Radical Republicans in Congress Reconstrucion plan
Abraham Lincoln
Radical Reconstruction was the imposition of military government in the South after the Civil War, in order to punish the former Confederate states and enforce the abolishment of slavery. Abraham Lincoln disagreed with the plans of the Radical Republicans in Congress, who instituted the military control of the South after his assassination,