RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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State governments could be formed when at least 10% of those who had voted in 1860 had sworn allegiance to the Union and accepted emancipation.
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Confederate officials and army and naval officers needed presidential pardons before they could participate in the new governments.
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Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among the blacks who had formerly worked there as slaves.
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Freedmen were excluded from participation because they had not been voters in 1860.
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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: -The Ten Percent plan was a Reconstruction plan for the south put forward by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The basics of the plan were that a state would be readmitted when 10 percent of its 1860 voting population had taken an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Johnson’s plan wasn’t as willing to give as much freedom to newly free slaves as Lincolns was. Johnson wanted to give the land back to the south unlike the RR. Johnson’s plan gave less protection to freed slaves then the Radical Republican’s plan. Unlike the 10% plan, the plan they had wanted to punish the south.