Question

Abraham Lincoln's 10 percent plan proposed that when 10 percent of_____swore an oath of loyalty to the united states an election could be held to select new states and federal representatives

Answer 1

Lincoln's plan for southern Reconstruction favored a speedy restoration of the southern states to the Union and a minimum of federal interventions in their affairs
* But Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 ==> Andrew Johnson became President and the task of Reconstruction fell to him
* At first, Johnson seemed to agree with the Radical Republicans that the South should be punished for seceding.