Presidential Reconstruction and Radical Reconstruction

The Differences between Presidential Reconstruction and Radical Reconstruction

Challenges to the Southern States

The Reconstruction Plans that were initiated by Abraham Lincoln and further carried out by President Andrew Johnson reverberated the message of Lincoln's second inaugural address in which he urged not to take revenge on earlier Confederate supporters. The intention behind forming the Presidential Reconstruction was to include the southern states to the Union again as soon as possible. However, the fact that the Southern governments were forming the laws that were depriving the newly liberated slaves of their rights outraged the republicans in congress (Howell, 2008). ...