How did President Lincoln and Radical Republicans in Congress approach the reconstruction?

How did President Lincoln and Radical Republicans in Congress approach the reconstruction of the defeated South? Did either Lincoln or the Radicals succeed? Why or why not?|||Lincoln was originally gonna be lenient on the South. the 10% plan would let the state back in the nation if 10% said they were sorry.





But then Lincoln was killed, and Radicals held a massive harsh grudge on the South.





They acted on their grudge by enacting the Wade Davis Bill which was more harsh than Lincoln's plan. They did the freedmen's bureau which helped black people make a living and get educated. They made the South ratify the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments which would outlaw slavery, give citizenship and suffrage to blacks and black males. They also made sure that President Johnson didn't interfere with their plan, because they tried to impeach him!





In the end the Reconstruction was a failure, because blacks were still in poverty and subjugation in the south, because of sharecropping and the KKK lynching them. Also, the South got around the 14th and 15th amendments by putting in grandfather clauses and barring blacks from voting.|||Reconstuction, followed by radical reconstruction, were both dismal failures. Congress initially instituted several plans to help the former slaves transition safely to better lives. Had Lincoln been alive, those plans might have worked well. But Vice President Andrew Johnson, who took his place after the assassination did not give a da** what happened to the blacks after the war. He was against slavery only because it gave rich southern planatation owners a huge economic advantage over the north and southerners without property. So Johnson refused to approve the federal funding needed to make those programs work. Radical reconstruction began shortly after that, with Congress deciding that blacks in the south should be able to vote and hold office. And that was, of course, the right thing to do. But at the same time they stripped those rights from former slaveholders and any man who had fought for the Confederacy. That pretty much stripped those rights from the majority of southern men. This action resulted in angry white southerners forming the Ku Klux Klan which reeked terror on the former slaves for the next 150 years. An economic depression in the late 1870's put an end to what little aid the south had received since the war. In reality, the civil war in the south continued into the twentieth century. Lincoln would never have allowed Congress to strip those rights from southern whites. That was definitely not part of the plans he had begun to outline for peace. So ironically, John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln to avenge the south, served as a catalyst for continued violence and economic upheaval in the south.