Nation After Civil War
... that when ten percent of a state’s voters had taken the oath of loyalty the U.S. they would be readmitted to the Union. He was will to let the South decide how to handle the slaves. Johnson’s requirements to carry out his plan, was for the south to abolish slavery and repudiate war debts to be readmitted into the Union. The Radical Republican Plan proposed to put the South under military rule and require the majority of the state to take the oath of loyalty to the U.S. Lincoln vetoed this plan but it went along and vetoed some of Johnson’s plans. The South also had to rebuild the economy. The North helped the South rebuild railroads, bridges and roads. This increased the industrialization in the South. After fields became usable again tobacco and cotton fields were becoming big businesses and bringing in large profits. The revival of the South’s economy increased the Southern industrial production four times what it had been before the Civil War. The white Southerners had no intentions of letting the newly freed slaves live a life equal to that of the whites. The South passed a series of black codes limiting the rights of African Americans. African Americans could not vote, testify against whites, handle weapons, or serve on juries. T...