Reconstruction Vs Radical Reconstruction

Radical Reconstruction was a movement that involved President Andrew Johnson and was set into action by a Republican controlled Congress. This Congress believed that the African-Americans were entitled to the same opportunities as the whites and should gain their citizenship. President Johnson stayed loyal to the Union throughout the Civil War even as a Governor of Tennessee, yet he vetoed the Civil Rights Bill, rejecting that the blacks and whites have the same rights. Southern elected senators and representatives were denied seats in Congress by the Radical Republicans. These Radical Republicans made the plans for Reconstruction, but not the way Lincoln had planned. In July 1866, the Congress set up the Freedmen’s Bureau, which prohibited