In an effort to get around laws passed by Congress, many southern states began to pass Black Codes. Congress, however, disagreed and began to pass harsher laws for the Southern states. When Andrew Johnson became president, he was from the South and wanted to be even more lenient to the Confederate States than Lincoln. President Lincoln was assassinated at the end of the Civil War, however, and never had the chance to implement his Reconstruction plan. Under Lincoln's plan, any state that was readmitted must make slavery illegal as part of their constitution.
He also said that if 10% of the voters in a state supported the Union, then a state could be readmitted.
He said that any southerner who took an oath to the Union would be given a pardon. Other people, however, wanted to forgive the South and let the healing of the nation begin.Ībraham Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South and make it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union. Many people wanted the South to be punished for trying to leave the Union.
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