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 more conciliatory and forgiving. Radical republicans demanded reparations.
Lincoln succeeded, but only in a sense. The reconstruction was supervised by Andrew Johnson because Lincold was assassinated soon after the war. Johnson had ties to the south and favored a soft and forgiving readmission terms for the former confederate states.|||Most of their bills to advance the country in reconstruction and with the advancement of blacks were defeated by angry southern white Democrats who couldn't stand the fact that Lincoln and the Republicans hated and defeated slavery. It ruined the South's economy and wealth.|||President Lincoln believed in letting the south "come back" without any real harsh punishment while the radical Repubs believed they should pay for their actions. The radicals succeeded initally because Lincoln got shot then Andrew Johnson took over.|||They didn't succeed because Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson was a Southern racist, and gave power back to the White Southerners
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