Compare the three Reconstruction Plans: Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan, and the Congressional Reconstruction Plan, in...

There
were three plans of . President Lincoln had a plan, President Johnson had a plan, and there was
the Radical Republican plan.

President Lincolns plan called for several
things to occur. His plan called for ten percent of the voters to take an oath of loyalty to the
United States. New state governments could form. These governments had to ban slavery when they
wrote the new state constitutions. His plan would offer amnesty to all white southerners, except
Confederate leaders, if these people pledged loyalty to the United States.

President Johnsons plan was different from President Lincolns plan. His plan called for granting
amnesty and returning people's property if they pledged to be loyal to the United States.
Confederate leaders had to apply directly to President Johnson in order to request amnesty. Only
people who promised to be loyal and who were pardoned could vote for delegates to the
conventions in each state that would write the new state constitutions....

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