RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Southerners should be made to pay for their rebellion
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The Union should be restored as quickly as possible
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African Americans should be given free land
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The west should claim some responsibility for the war
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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: -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: -President Lincoln began formulating a plan back in 1863, nearly two years before the Civil War ended. He first proposed his 10% Plan that year. This proposal stated that if 10% of the people in a Southern seceded state voted to re-enter the Union and accepted Emancipation, they could come back into the United States.