In
December 1863 Abraham Lincoln announced
his Reconstruction Plan. He declared that as soon as any seceded state
formed a accepted presidential decisions on the subject of slavery
and took oaths of allegiance to the Constitution, they would be readmitted
to the Union. 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.
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
in 1865, the new president, Andrew Johnson,
issued his own Reconstruction Plan. He announced that on the ratification
of the 13th Amendment Southern states would
be re-admitted into the Union. This upset Radical
Republicans and impeachment proceedings were began against him.
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