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: -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: -His “Ten Percent Plan” required that 10% of the voters within the Confederate states swear allegiance to the Union and recognize the emancipation of former slaves. Lincoln also planned to pardon all members of the Confederate states, except the highest-ranking military and civil officers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The moniker for the Ten Percent Plan came from Lincoln’s idea that in order for a state to start the process of reunification, it first must have 10 percent of the voting population of 1860 to agree to sign an oath of loyalty to the Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -Arnold to Lincoln, December 4, 1863. The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction that follows embodies Lincoln’s “ten per cent” plan of reconstructing the seceded states.