Compare and Contrast the three major Reconstruction plans: Lincoln's, Johnson's, and the radical Republicans. Which was the most logical?

Reconstruction era began in the middle of the Civil War and ended in the late 1870’s. Reconstruction was in a way a success and in others failure. It was more than just a civil rights movement yet it re-created the South, expanded capitalism, temporarily led to the division of one political party, the breakdown of another, and had moving forces that would have long-term consequences for the nation. The Reconstruction had three major plans Lincoln, Johnson, and the Radical Republicans. Both Lincoln and Johnson’s plan sought to a quick readmission process. Lincoln maintained that the political leadership of the South had seceded. The radical Republicans believed n a punitive Reconstruction plan that would also guarantee the rights of blacks. The Republicans in Congress wanted to enfranchise blacks and provide economic aid in the South for two main reasons, to keep blacks in the South so t would not harm or compete with whites in the North, and to create a center for the Southern Republican party. The Reconstruction plan that seemed the most logical was Lincoln’s plan on Reconstruction. His plan was logical due to the fact that it was reasonable he knew that since the government was divisible secession was impossible, he did not exclude people like Johnson did, and was not partial like the radical republicans who sought to look out only for white Northerners. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstructing the South back into the Union was reasonable in every sense, definitely n comparison with the radical Republicans and Johnson. Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson applied a plan which was similar to Lincoln’s yet Johnson’s plan brought him into direct confrontation with the radical Republicans. This confrontation soon set for a quarrel with executive and legislative branches over how best to reconstruct the South and address the status of black Americans. Lincoln’s plan for reconstructing was to be quick and painless. He wanted to painlessly reincorporate the South back into the Union. He reasoned that since the South did not secede their economic and political leaders initiated the secession and the war. He argued that due to the fact that the government was indivisible secession was politically impossible. The past Civil war had been a rebellion by a small group who violated the authority and laws of government. Knowing this one of his designs for the reconstruction was before a state could be readmitted in the Union 10 percent of voters needed to take oath to the U.S. This is logical since the government was indivisible no more than probably 10 percent would agree on one thing, so the radical’s plan of 50 percent would not be really logical. Johnson plan which was similar to Lincoln’s had a few differences. Johnson’s plan did have the same ideas as Lincoln yet he did have certain ambiguities one included the right to grant pardons to the same people that he claimed he wanted exclude power from. Doing this did not help the reconstruction plan it only irritated Northerners who saw senators of former offices in the Confederacy reclaiming their places in U.S. senates. This was not very logical on Johnson’s part of a plan. The radical Republicans only sought to help white Northerners. That is why they would create a Black Code, or even suggest that blacks stay in the South. If the blacks were to come to the North it would probably mean fewer jobs for white Northerners, or even competing for them. For a political group to want something so badly that they would consider hurt a people for their own benefit it seems cruel. Lincoln’s reconstruction plan probably did not go into full effect but it was still more logical than the other two plans. Lincoln’s reconstruction plan was the most logical due to facts that he had thought put into the plan he knew no more that 10 percent of people would all have a loyalty oath, there was no exceptions in his plan whatever was said was done, and he did create laws for his own personal benefit. Lincoln’s reconstruction plan sought to reincorporate the South back into the Union, and was for an enhancement of the U.S.