Andrew Johnson convicted, much better Reconstruction, move to quasi-parliamentary ?

Get what rolling though?

Congress did not embrace Freedman suffrage from choice. It was forced on them by Andrew Johnson's complaisance toward Southern Black Codes, reluctance to disavow the Confederate debt, and hearing damage suits against Union soldiers for wartime activities. Take away Johnson in favour of a POTUS who takes a tougher line about these matters, and they'll probably be satisfied with giving the vote to literate Blacks and ones who had served in the Union Army - enough to irritate the South but not enough to threaten white control. So you end up with the Blacks getting less rather than more.

I think you are correct.
 
I'd rather see the North play some skillful poker, ask for a medium-high amount and then negotiate downward.

For example, ask for two-thirds of citizens to take a loyalty oath, but then if it seems like the state is making good faith efforts, be open to negotiating downward to 60%.
 
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~kmporter/reconstructiontimeline.html

July 1864

Congress passes its own reconstruction plan, the Wade-Davis bill. It requires a majority of 1860 voters to take a loyalty oath, but only those who swear an "ironclad" oath of never having fought against the Union can participate in reconstructing their state's government. Congress requires the state constitutions to include bans on slavery, disfranchisement of Confederate political and military leaders, and repudiation of Confederate state debts. After Congress adjourns, Lincoln refuses to sign the Wade-Davis bill, so it is "pocket-vetoed" and not implemented.
I take it this is somewhat of the conventional view regarding both Lincoln and Johnson (or at least the conventional academic view). That the radical Republicans in Congress wanted to do more but were blocked presidential veto.

It is rather surprising given human nature and the modest priority accorded the rights of freed persons, but at least to some extent, the above does seem to be the academic view.
 
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