RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
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A confederate state could re-enter the Union whenever 10% of its voters took a vow of allegiance to the U.S.
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A confederate state could re-enter the Union whenever 10% of states already included agreed that it could enter.
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A confederate state could re-enter if it paid 10% of the damages that were suffered in the state during the Civil War.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In December, President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many members of the U.S. Congress were skeptical of the loyalty of the new Ten Percent governments. Congress refused to readmit Arkansas under Lincoln’s plan. Arkansas was unable to seat a congressional delegation and did not participate in the 1864 presidential election as a result.