RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
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Punish the South for starting the Civil War
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Force the Southern states to pay reparations to the federal government
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Allow the Southern states to reenter the nation as quickly as possible
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Establish the Republican Party as the only political party in the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -section4. In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
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: -But Johnson did not intend to punish the South. And while he did oversee the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery (a process Lincoln had started), Johnson also believed on principle that each state had the right to decide the best course of Reconstruction for itself.
Detailed explanation-4: -Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction Apart from being required to uphold the abolition of slavery (in compliance with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution), swear loyalty to the Union and pay off war debt, southern state governments were given free rein to rebuild themselves.