Presidential and Radical Reconstruction
Ten Percent Plan. Lincoln's 10% Plan offered amnesty to all but high-ranking Confederates willing to pledge loyalty to the Union and accept the abolition of slaveryWhen 10 percent of a state's 1860 voters had take this oath, that state could reapply to the Union.The Ten Percent Plan was aimed at subverting the southern war effort. In Louisiana, former slave owners attempted to reassert control over the newly freed black population with the aid of occupying forces, but the freedmen fought back9440
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