1 .		Congressional Republicans believed President Lincoln's so-called " Plan" for Reconstruction was much too lenient toward the former Confederate states.
2 .		President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction required that before they could be readmitted to the Union, former Confederate states would have to ratify the Amendment that abolished slavery.
3 .		Senate Radical Republicans led by demanded that equal rights for blacks be included in any Reconstruction policy.
4 .		Many Radical Republicans in Congress objected to President Johnson's Reconstruction policy because its leniency allowed southern states to enact , special laws designed to limit the rights of former slaves.
5 .		In 1866, Congress overrode President Johnson's veto and repassed the Act that restricted a state's power to limit black rights.
6 .		In the congressional elections of 1866, the party scored major victories and achieved a "veto proof" majority in Congress.
7 .		The 1867 Reconstruction Acts required former Confederate states to ratify the Amendment in order to be readmitted.
8 .		The Radical Republican's attempt to impeach and remove President Johnson from office was based on his violation of the Act.
9 .		The Fifteenth Amendment intended to prohibit from denying blacks the right to vote.
10 .		During Reconstruction, Radical Republican Congressman tried to find a way to confiscate plantation land and redistribute it to former slaves.
11 .		The scarcity of money in the postwar southern economy produced the system where local merchants loaned money to farmers and sharecroppers, using their fall harvest as collateral.
12 .		Congress responded to the actions of groups like the Ku Klux Klan in the South by passing three Acts, which placed southern elections under federal jurisdiction.
13 .		In 1872 a reform element in the Republican party, provoked by the corruption of the Grant administration, founded the Liberal Republican party and nominated for president.
14 .		The affair, which cost the federal government millions in tax revenues, was among the worst of the many scandals of the Grant administration.
15 .		The so-called signaled the end of the use of coercion in the relations between the North and South, and the return of a conciliatory relationship.