They did not share the same goals on Reconstruction
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Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
President Abraham Lincoln
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Congress and the president disagreed about who had authority to devise a plan of reconstruction.
The first person elected to the US Presidency from the Republican Party was Abraham Lincoln. The first national Republican campaign for President ran John Fremont in 1856 but he lost.
They did not share the same goals on reconstruction
James A. Garfield (March-September, 1881)
they did not share the same goals on reconstruction
Did the planter elite affect President Johnson approach to reconstruction
President Ford Was a Republican
Republican US Congress rejected Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan because it made too many concessions for former slave owners.
US President Lincoln had planned generous conditions for the Reconstruction Era for the former Confederate states. His assassination in 1865, negated these generous terms and the radical wing of the Republican Party set about to punish the South severely.
President Andrew Johnson wanted the Reconstruction policy to be more forgiving to the former confederate states. Members of the Republican party did not like this.
He was president during the early part of reconstruction.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
President Lincoln was frustrated with his military leaders from 1861 to 1862.
Andrew Johnson , who was from Tennessee ,was the President during the beginning of Reconstruction.