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    Ten percent plan was meant to shorten the war by offering a moderate peace plan. Policy toward the South was lenient because he wanted to popularize his Emancipation Proclamation. Some Republicans pushed through the Wade-Davis Bill in July 1864, which outlined more stringent requirements for re-admission into the union.

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    Ten percent plan was meant to shorten the war by offering a moderate peace plan. Policy toward the South was lenient because he wanted to popularize his Emancipation Proclamation. Some Republicans pushed through the Wade-Davis Bill in July 1864, which outlined more stringent requirements for re-admission into the union.

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ten percent plan

    Ten percent plan


    This policy was meant to shorten the war
    by offering a moderate peace plan. It was
    also intended to further his emancipation
    policy by insisting that the new governments
    abolish slavery.
    Congress reacted sharply to this proclam-
    ation of Lincoln’s. Republicans feared that
    the planter aristocracy would be restored
    and the blacks would be forced back into
    slavery. Lincoln’s reconstructive policy to-
    ward the South was lenient because he
    wanted to popularize his Emancipation Pro-
    clamation. Lincoln feared that compelling en-
    forcement of the proclamation could lead to
    the defeat of the Republican Party in the
    election of 1864, and that popular Democrats
    could overturn his proclamation. Some Re-
    publicans pushed through Congress the
    Wade-Davis Bill in July 1864, which outlined
    more stringent requirements for re-admis-
    sion. This was pocket-vetoed by Lincoln after
    it passed.
    The Radical Republicans opposed Lin-
    coln’s plan, as they thought it too lenient to-
    wards the South. They wanted more strin-
    gent requirements for Southern states’ re-ad-
    mission into the Union. Lincoln, however,
    chose not to punish the South. He wanted to
    President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. By Brady
    preserve the Union and start rebuilding the
    wealth and prosperity of the country.
    During the American Civil War in Decem-
    ber 1863, Abraham Lincoln offered a model
    for reinstatement of Southern states called References
    the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. It de-
    • Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of
    creed that a state could be reintegrated into
    Emancipation & Reconstruction. New
    the Union when 10 percent of voters (as
    York: Vintage Books, 2005.
    counted in the presidential election of 1860)
    had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S.
    and pledged to abide by emancipation. The
    next step in the process would be for the
    states to formally elect a state government.
    Also, a state legislature could write a new
    constitution, but it had to abolish slavery
    forever. At that time, Lincoln would recog-
    nize the reconstructed government. By 1864,
    Louisiana and Arkansas had established fully
    functioning Unionist governments.

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