Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination in 1864. ... Abraham Lincoln believed that the Southern states had never legally withdrawn from the Union. In 1863, Lincoln proposed a plan called the "10% Plan." ... Moderate Republicans agreed with Lincoln's ideals. ... Radical Republicans were against Abraham Lincoln. ...
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) B. ... The Lincoln administration (1861-1865) was mostly centered on the liberal republican view and the beginning of the Reconstruction efforts closely mirrored those. Lincoln believed that ex-confederates and ex-confederate states should be readmitted into the union with little or no punishment. ... After Lincoln assassination on April 15, 1865 by actor John Wilkes Booth, Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the position of President of the United States (1865-1869). ... Once becoming President of the United States, he acted as though he were a radical repub...
The post-Civil War South is in shambles. With the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, the American South was in for a shock. How would this affect the culture that relied so heavily on slave-labor on vast plantations? Would the South just wither and be assimilated into the North?...
Southerners resisted, and northerners eventually acquiesced to state's rights rhetoric, leaving African Americans the victims of state and national governments' refusal to enforce the legislation. 1 During the Civil War, Lincoln "freed" slaves in specific regions of the U.S. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."" ...
