Whose Reconstruction Plan Was Toughest on the South?

Lincoln's plan was the easiest, and the Radical Republican

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In Congress, the most influential Radical Republicans were U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens. They led the call for a war that would end slavery.
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Plan was the hardest on the South.

Who had the better plan for Reconstruction?

Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Who opposed Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan for the South?

By the end of the Civil War Arkansas and Louisiana had established governments based on these terms. Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan because it did not ensure equal civil rights for freed slaves.

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