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Tailor Made Reconstruction

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Tailor Made Reconstruction - Ineptitude meets Indifference

President Johnson's battles with Radical Republicans in Congress over a host of Reconstruction measures revealed political

ineptitude and an astonishing indifference toward the plight of the newly freed African-American

60 Second President [Andrew Johnson]; The Ultimate Guided to the Presidents [Andrew Johnson]

Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Presidential Reconstruction Plan

Context: President Johnson announced his Reconstruction plan soon after he became president, following Lincoln's assassination, and implemented it during the summer of 1865 when Congress was in recess.

Components of Johnson’s "Reconstruction" Plan (Restoration or Reconstruction?)

#1 General amnesty to all who would take an oath of future loyalty.

#2 Pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20,000, if they petitioned the president personally for individual pardons. Of the nearly 16,000 pardons requested, 15,500 were granted (97%)

#3 In order to be readmitted, a state would have to ratify the 13^th Amendment, which abolished slavery, and repudiate Confederate war debts

#4 A state was required to repeal its secession ordinance before being readmitted.

By the end of 1865, all the former Confederate states had complied with Johnson’s plan and were ready to reenter the Union on an equal status with all the other states.