🔧Radical Republicans and President Lincoln had differing visions for the reconstruction of the Union.
📜The Wade-Davis bill proposed strict policies for the defeated Confederacy, but was vetoed by Lincoln.
🔀Congress implemented radical reconstruction, dividing the South into military districts.
🏢The Freedmen's Bureau provided aid to freed African Americans, but faced funding and staffing issues.
🌑Opposition from President Johnson and the rise of carpetbaggers and scalawags hindered Reconstruction progress.