USA HISTORY

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: -1. A state must have a majority within its borders take the oath of loyalty 2. A state must formally abolish slavery 3. No Confederate officials could participate in the new governments.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Congress enacted the so-called “Ironclad Test Oath, ” requiring civil servants and military officers to swear not only to future loyalty but also to affirm that they had never previously engaged in disloyal conduct.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by United States President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War.