E.O.T.O. Reconstruction Era- Ten Percent Plan

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan.
This stated that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance or loyalty to the Union. This plan also stated that all southerners except for high-ranking Confederate army officers and government officials would be given a full pardon.
Lincoln promised Southerners that he would protect their private property, not including their slaves. Lincoln’s plan was very easy on the the South as he was not trying to punish southerners or reorganize southern society.

Lincoln wanted to end the war quickly 
Lincoln feared that a long, drawn-out war would lose public support and the North and South would never be reunited.
He wanted Reconstruction to be a short process in which secessionist states could create new constitutions as fast as possible and the US could exist as it had before.
Most Republicans in Congress supported this plan because they wanted a quick end to this war.
Unfortunately, this plan was cut short by his assassination in 1865. 

Abraham Lincoln

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