USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He formulated a lenient plan, based on Lincoln’s earlier 10% plan, to allow the Southern states to begin holding elections and sending representatives back to Washington.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -May: President Johnson announces his plan of Presidential Reconstruction. It calls for general amnesty and restoration of property–except for slaves–to all Southerners who will swear loyalty to the Union.