Radical Reconstruction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstruction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Reconstruction

There is a buch of info on each…good luck!

Lincoln didn’t live long enough for his reconstruction plan to be worked out beyond vague principals. In the conflict between Johnson and the Radical Republicans who dominated Congress, Johnson’s ideas for returning the South to the Union were generally much less punitive. Johnson was willing to let the former rebel states return once they repealed their Secession laws, repudiated their wartime debts, and ratified the 14th Amendment. The Congress was far less willing to let the southern states return, and refused to seat members from the former confederate states. Those states sometimes provoked Congress deliberately by electing representatives who had been Confederate leaders, but Congress also refused to seat members who had proven loyalty to the Union, including, to Johnson’s fury, those from his home state of Tennessee. There were also disagreements over how broad an amnesty should be issued to the former Confederate leaders and how many of them should be charged with treason and other war-related crimes. In the end, very few were actually sentenced for their acts.