Reconstruction Plans

Reconstruction Plans

Lincoln’s Plan Johnson’s Plan Radical Republican Plan

“With malice toward none, with charity toward all”

Lenient

Lenient, but not as lenient as Lincoln’s

Spoke against the white planter power structure

“Congress alone can do it. Congress must create states and declare they are represented

The South should be punished

Reconstruction Plans

Lincoln’s Plan Johnson’s Plan Radical Republican Plan

Congress had the power to admit new states to the Union. Therefore in had the responsibility for Reconstruction

Presidential power to pardon placed responsibility for Reconstruction in the executive branch

Reconstruction Plans

Lincoln’s Plan Johnson’s Plan Radical Republican Plan

Readmitted to the Union when…

Amnesty to all but a few

10% Plan – 10% of a states voters in 1860 had to swear a loyalty oath

Organize a state government that bans slavery

Lincoln’s 10% plan

Excluded from amnesty plan those whose property exceeded $20,000

Supported emancipation but no necessarily suffrage

Disbanded the states that came in under Lincoln’s plan

Divided the South into 5 districts

Placed under military rule

Required Southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment

Required to guarantee suffrage