Question

Rival Plans for Reconstruction

Ten Percent Plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Johnson Plan

Reconstruction Act

Radical Republicans (1867)




Proposed by

President Abraham Lincoln (1863)

Republicans in Congress (1864)

President Andrew Johnson (1865)

Conditions for former

Confederate

States to rejoin

Union

• 10 percent of voters

• Majority of white men must swear

loyalty

• Majority of white men must swear loyalty

• Must disband state governments


must swear loyalty to Union

Former Confederate volunteers

cannot vote or

hold office

• Must ratify Thirteenth Amendment

• Must write new constitutions

• Must ratify Fourteenth Amendment


• Must abolish slavery

Former Confederate officials may vote and hold office

• Wartime debts by states will not be recognized

African American men must be allowed to vote


• Each state would be appointed a governor chosen by the President


Must disqualify former officials of the Confederacy 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?

Item 15

(1 point)

Lincoln's plan would have severely punished the South

Lincoln's plan would have disregarded the issue of slavery

Lincoln's plan would have been very lenient toward the South.

Lincoln's plan would have placed great emphasis on regaining southern loyalty

Answer 1

Lincoln's plan would have been very lenient toward the South.

The Ten Percent Plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln allowed for a relatively easy process for southern states to rejoin the Union, requiring only that 10 percent of voters swear an oath of loyalty. It emphasized reconciliation and aimed to encourage southern loyalty rather than punishment.