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Teyona Sanford
Professor Hayburn and Class,
The Reconstruction plan for Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (10% Plan) – Lincoln, Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan and Congressional Reconstruction Plan (Congress) compared in similar ways. The 10% plan was based on states been readmitted to the Union but only if 10% of it’s voters swore oath of loyalty to the Union. Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plan was based on giving pardons would be granted if you confessed your loyalty and states needed to abolished slavery before being readmitted to the Union. The Radical Reconstruction, also called Congressional Reconstruction, process and period of Reconstruction during which the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress seized control of Reconstruction from President Andrew Johnson and passed the Reconstruction Acts of 1867–68, which sent federal troops to the South to oversee the establishment of state governments that were more democratic (Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopedia 2022).
According to the OpenStax, efforts to launch the Radical Reconstruction had massive backlash in the South. Scandals hobbled the Republican Party, as did a severe economic depression. By 1875, Reconstruction had largely come to an end. Reconstruction had failed to achieve its primary objective of creating an interracial democracy that provided equal rights to all citizens (OpenStax, 2022).
The culture and society changed were different between the North and the South. The South had thousands of freed slaves and having to help rebuild economy devastation by army’s that have been fighting across the South for many years. Many small farmers were in poverty after the war and had to started investing in cotton. After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant took the place of slavery `and plantation system in the South.
In the North, they were populated by farmers and waged labored. Northern states were able to buy clothes from New England factories. They had a great diversity of industry and finances which lead them to be more equipped with certain materials and supplies to be able to continue to grow the Northern States.
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopedia (2022, January 30). Radical Reconstruction. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Radical-Reconstruction (Links to an external site.).
OpenStax, 2022. U.S. History. https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/16-summary (Links to an external site.).
