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Which Reconstruction plan did President Lincoln favor at the end of the Civil War? (5 points)
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withdrawing federal troops from the South as quickly as possible
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readmitting states when 10 percent of the electorate took a loyalty oath
re-drawing boundaries to create several African American majority states in the South
sending emancipated slaves to foreign colonies that would be run by African Americans

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readmitting states when 10 percent of the electorate took a loyalty oath

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After major Union victories at the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln began preparing his plan for Reconstruction to reunify the North and South after the war’s end. Because Lincoln believed that the South had never legally seceded from the Union, his plan for Reconstruction was based on forgiveness.

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