Question

Under President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction, how could states be readmitted to the Union?
Twenty percent of a state’s white males had to swear loyalty.
States had to disenfranchise all former Confederate soldiers.
State conventions had to establish new governments.
States had to ratify all three Reconstruction amendments.

Answer 1

State conventions had to establish new governments.

Johnson’s plan required southern states to repeal secession, hold conventions to form new state governments, and ratify the 13th Amendment. It was fairly lenient (pardons for many Confederates) and did not require a 20% loyalty oath, wholesale disenfranchisement of former Confederate soldiers, or ratification of all three later Reconstruction amendments.