PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION AND RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Presidential Reconstruction and Radical Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstruction and Radical Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstruction:

Like Lincoln, Andrew Johnson wanted to re-establish the Union as soon as possible. While Congress was facing a recession, the President started implementing his strategies and plans, which later became to be known as “The Presidential Reconstruction”. He started returning confiscated properties to the white people, issued numbers of pardons to the government officials and former Confederate officers. (Foner, 1990)He destabilized the Freedman's Bureau by ordering the people to return all of the possessed property to the white southerners.

Andrew Johnson appointed supervisors to look after the ...