Plan
Proposed by
Conditions for former Confederate States to rejoin Umion
A)
loyalty to Union
Must abolish slavery
Rival Plans for Reconstruction
Wade-Davis B
Tem Percent Plan
President Abraham Lincoln (1963)
10 percent of voters must swear
Republicans in Congress (1864)
Majority of whith men must swar byalty
Former Confederate volunteers cannot vate or hold office
Wartime debts by scates will not be recognized
Johnson Plan
President Andrew Johnson (1865)
Majority of whil men must swar
Loyalty Must ratify Thirteenth Amendment
Former Confederate officials may vate and hold office
Each state would be appointed a govemor chosen by the President
Reconstruction Act
Radical Republicans (1867)
Must disband state goversments
Must write new constillutions
Must raitily Fourteenth Amendment
African American men must bio allowed to vote
Must disqualify former officials of the Conlederacy from holding public office
Use the chart to answer the question.
Using your knowledge of the text and the chart, which best describes Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?
Lineo's plan would have
1. Severity punished the south.
2. disregarded the issue of Slavery
3. very lenient tousand the South
1. Placed great emphasis on regaining. Southern loyalts
1 answer
Based on the information in the chart and your question, Lincoln's Reconstruction plan can best be described by option 3: very lenient towards the South.
Lincoln's plan required only 10 percent of voters in a Confederate state to swear allegiance to the Union and allowed for a relatively quick rejoining of the Union, which indicates a lenient approach. His emphasis was on reconciliation and reintegrating the Southern states rather than punishing them severely.
