{"id":2721,"date":"2021-03-18T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/?post_type=chapter&p=2721"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:38:47","slug":"introduction-to-union-restoration","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/introduction-to-union-restoration\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Lincoln and Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction","rendered":"Introduction to Lincoln and Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction"},"content":{"raw":"

What you'll learn to do: explain early plans and efforts for Reconstruction in the South<\/h2>\r\n\"A<\/a>\r\n\r\nFollowing the Civil War, President Lincoln worked to reach his goal of reunifying the nation quickly and proposed a lenient plan to reintegrate the Confederate states. After his murder in 1865, Lincoln\u2019s vice president, Andrew Johnson, sought to reconstitute the Union quickly, pardoning Southerners en masse and providing Southern states with a clear path back to readmission. While the president concluded that all that needed to be done in the South had been done by early 1866, Congress forged ahead to stabilize the defeated Confederacy and extend to freed people citizenship and equality before the law. Congress prevailed over Johnson\u2019s vetoes as the friction between the president and the Republicans increased.","rendered":"

What you’ll learn to do: explain early plans and efforts for Reconstruction in the South<\/h2>\n

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Following the Civil War, President Lincoln worked to reach his goal of reunifying the nation quickly and proposed a lenient plan to reintegrate the Confederate states. After his murder in 1865, Lincoln\u2019s vice president, Andrew Johnson, sought to reconstitute the Union quickly, pardoning Southerners en masse and providing Southern states with a clear path back to readmission. While the president concluded that all that needed to be done in the South had been done by early 1866, Congress forged ahead to stabilize the defeated Confederacy and extend to freed people citizenship and equality before the law. Congress prevailed over Johnson\u2019s vetoes as the friction between the president and the Republicans increased.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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