How did Radical Republicans in Congress work against President Johnson's Reconstruction plans?

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Johnson rejected the Radical program of harsh, lengthy Reconstruction and instead appointed his own governors and tried to finish reconstruction by the end of 1865. Johnson favored conciliatory policies towards the South and a rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states back into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights. The Radical Republicans opposed.

President Abraham Lincoln and the Radicals in the Republican Party had clashed bitterly about reconstruction policies long before the assassination thrust Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, into the fray.