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Which reconstruction plan Lincoln's, Radical Republicans, or Johnson's was the most destructive, and which do you think would work the best?

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This is Abraham Lincoln's plan

Abraham Lincoln had thought about the process of restoring the Union

from the earliest days of the war. His guiding principles were to

accomplish the task as rapidly as possible and ignore calls for

punishing the South.

In late 1863, Lincoln announced a formal plan for reconstruction:

1. A general amnesty would be granted to all who would take an

oath of loyalty to the United States and pledge to obey all

federal laws pertaining to slavery

2. High Confederate officials and military leaders were to be

temporarily excluded from the process

3. When one tenth of the number of voters who had participated

in the 1860 election had taken the oath within a particular state,

then that state could launch a new government and elect

representatives to Congress.

4.

The states of Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee rapidly acted to

comply with these terms. Despite an early position showing a

vindictive streak, Andrew Johnson continued Lincoln's plan for

reconstruction when he took office after Lincoln's assassination. Civil

governments were set up, except in the state of Texas, after

conventions in each state officially abolished slavery, repudiated their

debts, and canceled the acts of secession. Representatives were elected

to serve in Congress.

However, the Lincoln plan was not acceptable to Congress, which

rejected the representatives.

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I hope that helps. I don't know if it is right or wrong, but good luck :)

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