USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Following Abraham Lincoln’s death, President Andrew Johnson based his reconstruction plan on Lincoln’s earlier measure. Johnson’s plan also called for loyalty from ten percent of the men who had voted in the 1860 election.

Detailed explanation-2: -Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction Apart from being required to uphold the abolition of slavery (in compliance with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution), swear loyalty to the Union and pay off war debt, southern state governments were given free rein to rebuild themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.