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A Journey into Human History

Restoring the Union

A Journey into Human History · May 22, 2026 · 13:25

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President Lincoln worked to reach his goal of reunifying the nation quickly and proposed a lenient plan to reintegrate the Confederate states. After his murder in 1865, Lincoln’s vice president, Andrew Johnson, sought to reconstitute the Union quickly, pardoning Southerners en masse and providing Southern states with a clear path back to readmission. By 1866, Johnson announced the end of Reconstruction. Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed, however, and in the years ahead would put forth their own plan of Reconstruction.            

All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/16-1-restoring-the-union            

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