1. President Lincoln’s willingness to have the federal government assume responsibility of the Confederate government’s war debts
2. President Lincoln’s choice to have a Southerner as his vice president in the 1864 election
3. President Lincoln’s decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union
4. President Lincoln’s decision to extend the Emancipation Proclamation to include all states
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The major example of Abraham Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward the defeated South is:
3. President Lincoln’s decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union.
This policy reflected Lincoln's belief in a lenient approach to Reconstruction, encouraging a swift reintegration of the Southern states into the Union.
