USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both Lincoln and Johnson provided for a generous amnesty to allow Southerners to retain their property and reacquire their political rights. Believed the South should be punished for starting the war and hoped to protect the rights of Freedmen (former slaves).

Detailed explanation-2: -Following Abraham Lincoln’s death, President Andrew Johnson based his reconstruction plan on Lincoln’s earlier measure. Johnson’s plan also called for loyalty from ten percent of the men who had voted in the 1860 election.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main difference between Lincoln’s and Johnson’s reconstruction plans lay in the rights of freedom after the civil war ended. Although Lincoln wanted to guarantee rights, such as voting rights for the formerly enslaved but Johnson’s plan did not meet these requirements.

Detailed explanation-4: -Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction Under Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction, all land that had been confiscated by the Union Army and distributed to the formerly enslaved people by the army or the Freedmen’s Bureau (established by Congress in 1865) reverted to its prewar owners.