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Why
was Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan called the "Ten Percent Plan

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Wanted to end the war quickly
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cause a southern state could be readmitted into the union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the union and he wanted to end the war quickly
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