What Were The Goals Of Reconstruction Dbq

The time period of 1865 to 1877 is known as the Reconstruction era. The reconstruction era was needed after the civil war to rebuild and reunite the Union and the Confederacy. The civil war was a battle between the north and the south to reunite the country as one and near the end of the war it became about abolishing slavery. There were many plans in consideration to reunite the country. The main three plans were Lincoln’s, the Wade Davis bill, and the Radical Republic plan. Each plan had goals, had strategies to obtain those goals, and some impact on the country. Lincoln’s goals for his plan were plain and simple. He wanted to reunite the country and allow the freedmen to vote. Those were his two main goals. The Wade Davis bill was put through congress while Lincoln was still alive and proposed a more harsh punishment for the south. The goals of the Wade Davis Bill were to reunite the country, punish the South, and get more rights for the freed slaves. The Radical Republicans plan was very similar to the Wade Davis Bill. The Radical Republican …show more content…
Before Lincoln’s plan was able to be enacted, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln. The Wade Davis plan also never got off the ground due to the fact that Lincoln vetoed it while he was still alive. The last plan was the Radical Republican plan. This plan was constructed when Andrew Johnson was in office. Andrew Johnson also had a reconstruction plan but it never took off. The Radical Republican plan is the reconstruction plan that was used. Although the radical republican plan was severe it did reunite the country. Each plan had its good points and its bad points. Two of the plans were very similar but both were vastly different from the third. In every plan there was freedom of slaves and the reunification of the country bu there were different strategies to achieve these goals. In the end the radical Republican plan was used and succeeded in reuniting the