What did they want?
- Abolish Slavery
- Pass the 13th Amendment
- Provide Freedmen's Bureau assistance for the 1st year of Reconstruction
- Take it EASY on the South
- Let the South Peacefully Rejoin the United States
- Allow the Southern States to run their own governments with little interference from the Federal Government
- Get the Cotton Economy of the South up and running again so that Northern factories would have cotton to make textiles
- No real plans to give Freedmen the right to vote
- No real plans to give Freedmen Equal Civil Rights