USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On December 8, 1863, President Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction; the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. This announcement offered a full pardon to those individuals that took an oath of loyalty and accepted the abolition of slavery.

Detailed explanation-2: -The biography for President Johnson and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states’ rights views.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lincoln continued to advocate tolerance and speed in plans for the reconstruction of the Union in opposition to Congress.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.