Question

. Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical (Congressional) Reconstruction

Black Study

Answer 1

President Andrew Johnsons implemented Presidential Reconstruction.

The Presidential Reconstruction was proposed by the president Abraham Lincoln after the civil war but didn't live long enough for his reconstruction plan to be worked out; It was fairly conservative and very moderate

In the year 1865 president Andrew Johnson implemented the plan of presidential reconstruction by giving power to the white south in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom, it was a punishment to South African Americans. He pardoned to all Southern whites, restores their political rights and returned their property. The southern state's government enacted the black code that made African American or black to sign yearly labor contracts their freedom was limited and it reestablishes plantation discipline. African American strongly opposed this reconstruction policy and wanted support from Northern states. The new southern states limited the occupations open to blacks and denied public funds for their education. President Johnson was a combination of racism and stubbornness; he was in favor of Unions. Due to his this typical character he vetoes the reconstruction legislation and opposed the fourteenth amendment, But Congress approved the fourteenth amendment which put the principle of birthright citizenship into the constitution and giving equal protection to all the citizens.

In the year 1866 congressional election the Northern states rejected, and Congress decided to start afresh reconstruction that is known as Congressional or Radical reconstruction that divided South into five military districts and the new government had to work without racism giving equal right to everyone, giving full civil and political rights to African Americans. The government-funded education and outlawed racial discrimination in public, The black got freedom from white and it worked towards the welfare of black and white equals, It was the transformation of the South from an area built on slave labor to a free-labor society.,and people were protected and given the opportunity for a better life. By the end of 1870, all the southern states had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and been restored to the Union.