Lincoln's plan was like the prodigal son historians say. He was lenient to bring the union back peacefully . He just wanted America to be a unified nation again. But his plan couldn't carry out because he wsas assassinated. Johnson's plan was similar to Lincoln but Johnson wanted to take away southerner's power. Congress was made up of radical republican who didn't support lincolns approach to reconstruction. They feared confederate states would go back to slavery so they wanted blacks to become citizens(14th amendment). Congress thought it shouldn't be the president's responsibility to control the reconstruction but it should be theirs. Both Johsnon and Lincoln wanted to be in charge of the
