What was true of the Radical Republicans' plan for the South?

Unlike President Andrew Johnson (a former Senator from Tennessee), the Radical Republicans wished to treat the South as a conquered territory and thus divide it into military districts. Rather than allowing the hostile states to seamlessly reenter into the American body politic, Radical Republicans wanted to grant Congress the power to dictate terms of reentry and impose certain laws on the region as forms of punishment for the continuous use of slavery and for waging war against the Union.