Today in class we read a really long obituary on Andrew JOhnson. He was the vice president to Lincoln, and then after Lincoln's assassination he became president. He was a Southern democrat that sympathized with the South after the Civil war. He was very forgiving to the South, which the Radical Republicans did not agree with. Yesterday in class we learned about the different plans for reconstruction. Lincoln's plan was forgiving to the South, but punishing at the same time. People had to pedge their allegiance to the Union before they got a pardon. In Johnson's plan, he was even more forgiving to the South. He gave almost everyone a pardon that asked, and alowed them to enter the Union easily. The Radial Republican's plan was the most punishing. It did not give pardons, and the South was under military rule. It didn't allow Confederate leaders to vote for a period of time, and madethem give equal rights to all.