​Issue	​President Lincoln’s Plan	President Johnson's Plan	Radical Republicans
Who is leading each plan?	President Lincoln Abolitionist	President Johnson (successor of Lincoln) Abolitionist	Thaddeus Stevens Wanted rights for African Americans
What kind of approach?	​Lenient Reconstruction Policy	Builds and continues on Lincoln’s plan	Very radical
Plan?	Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (Ten-Percent Plan) The government would pardon all Confederates, except high-ranking officials and prisoners of war, to swear allegiance to the Union	​ Presidential Reconstruction Each remaining Confederate state would have to withdraw its succession, swear allegiance to the Union, anul Southern war debts, and ratify the 13th amendment Different from Lincoln: Johnson wanted to prevent high-ranking Confederates and wealthy Southern landowners from taking the oath needed for voting privileges Not in favor of former slaves gaining the right to vote	Wanted to destroy the entire political power of former slaveholders More importantly, they wanted African Americans to have full citizenship and the right to vote Suffrage was the true radical part; setting precedent for other countries
Attitudes Towards One Another	Disliked the Radical Republicans because he wanted to be in charge of Reconstruction; not Congress	Valued the majority of Lincoln’s ideas for Reconstruction	Upset that Johnson’s plan failed to address  the needs of former slaves (land, suffrage, and protection under the law) Infuriated when Johnson pardoned 68 Confederate-related people into Congress
What they did to each other	Used pocket veto against the Wade-Davis Bill		Passing their own plan, Wade-Davis Bill​ (proposed that Congress, not the President, should be responsible for Reconstruction and that those eligible to vote in 1860 would have to take an oath to support the Constitution) Opposing Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan

Which plan was implemented?
Congress implemented its own path to rebuild the South.​

The rest of the country thought their approach was too radical and did not want as many rights for black Americans.

President Abraham Lincoln

President Andrew Johnson

Radical Republicans in Congress

President Lincoln and President Johnson fighting about Reconstruction